Kaposi's sarcoma in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome: the first autopsy case report in Canada

Abstract

This chapter reviews the pertinent microbiological, pathological, diagnostic, and medical features of naturally occurring bacterial, mycoplasmal, and mycotic infections occurring bacterial, mycoplasmal, and mycotic infections of the laboratory rat. Several bacterial infections discussed in the chapter are streptobacillosis, spirochetosis, Streptococcus pneumoniae infection, Enterococcus sp. infection, pseudomoniasis, Clostridium piliforme infection, Corynebacterium kutscheri infection, Salmonella sp. infection, and pasteurellaceae infection. Several mycotic infections discussed are dermatomycosis, deep mycoses, and pneumocystosis. Several mycoplasmal and rickettsial infections presented are respiratory mycoplasmosis, genital mycoplasmosis, and articular mycoplasmosis. There are several organisms isolated occasionally in the course of health surveillance with rats that are difficult to categorize as to pathogenicity and that do not recur often enough either as commensals or in periodic association with disease states as to be regarded as natural pathogens of the rat. Clinical conditions caused by such organisms as Bordetella bronchiseptica, Klebsiella pneumoniae, K. oxytoca, and Staphylococcus aureus fall within this group and might, more properly, be regarded as infections.