Abstract
A 23-year old male orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) had been treated for two years for respiratory disease believed to be tuberculosis. Terminally, the animal developed mucopurulent rhinitis and refused food. Necropsy examination revealed diffuse, severe, bilateral chronic pleuritis, fibrinous bronchopneumonia and air sacculitis. Large numbers of gram-negative bacteria seen in the lung histologically were cultured from both the lung and air sacs and identified asAcinetobacter calcoaceticus varietylwoffi. The resistance of the isolatein vitro to ampicillin may have accounted for the lack of clinical response of the ill orangutan.
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