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Photo #: HW_001 Description: Amblyomma variegatum ticks feeding on a goat. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_002 Description: Goat. The neck is extended, consistent with dyspnea. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_003 Description: Goat, thoracic viscera. There are many pleural hemorrhages, and the lung is moderately noncollapsed (edema). Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_004 Description: Sheep, lung. There is severe interlobular edema. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_005 Description: Sheep, lung. Interlobular septa are distended with edema fluid. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_006 Description: Sheep, lung. The lung is noncollapsed and hyperemic, and the bronchi contain frothy fluid (pulmonary edema). Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_007 Description: Goat, heart. There are many small hemorrhages on the endocardial surface. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_008 Description: Sheep, kidney. There are multiple petechiae on the cortical surface. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_009 Description: Sheep, kidney. Section reveals numerous fine linear radial hemorrhages; hemorrhages coalesce in the papillae on the right. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_010 Description: Goat, prescapular lymph node. There are multiple barely discernible petechiae in the cortex. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_011 Description: Goat, abomasum. There are multiple petechial and paintbrush serosal hemorrhages. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_012 Description: Small ruminant, abomasum. The mucosa contains disseminated petechiae and coalescing ecchymotic hemorrhages. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_013 Description: Small ruminant, small intestine. The mucosa contains numerous petechiae and ecchymoses. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_014 Description: Sheep, brain. The leptomeninges are congested and contain many small hemorrhages. Gyri are flattened (cerebral edema). Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_015 Description: Goat, brain. Section of the cerebrum reveals multiple petechiae and a few ecchymoses. The choroid plexus is severely enlarged due to acute inflammation and hemorrhage, and protrudes from the lateral ventricle. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_016 Description: Goat, brain smear. An endothelial cell contains a morula (cluster) of Ehrlichia ruminantium. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_017 Description: Goat, peripheral blood smear. A neutrophil contains a few Ehrlichia ruminantium. Credit: PIADC |
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Photo #: HW_018 Description: Goat, buffy coat smear. Several neutrophils contain E. ruminantium morulae. Credit: PIADC |
