The clinical and laboratory findings in an orphaned juvenile female platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) that presented with a severe anaemia and tick infestation are reported. The animal developed a terminal septicaemia and died.
Antemortem clinical pathology, postmortem histopathology and 18S rDNA sequencing supported a diagnosis of extravascular haemolytic anaemia secondary to Theileria ornithorhynchi infection.
Source: Kessell, A., Boulton, J., Dutton, G., Woodgate, R., Shamsi, S., Peters, A. and Connolly, J. (2014), Haemolytic anaemia associated with Theileria sp. in an orphaned platypus. Australian Veterinary Journal. doi: 10.1111/avj.12225
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