Images

Photomicrographs from a big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) from Wisconsin, USA. H&E stain. (A) Low magnification of a cross section through the nares showing nasal cavity (*), oral mucosa (arrowhead), and haired skin (arrow). (B) Higher magnification showing a normal hair follicle (arrow) surrounded by sebaceous glands.

Photographs from a mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) found dead in Idaho, USA.  (A) The lungs are dark red and have multifocal 1-3 mm diameter white to tan nodules disseminated throughout (arrows).  (B) Cut section of the lung showing the nodules within the parenchyma (arrows).

Photomicrographs from a mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) found dead in Idaho, USA.  (A) Multiple granulomas (*) with eosinophilic necrotic centers efface the lung. H&E stain.  (B) Granulomas contain many degenerate heterophils and a few multinucleated giant cells (arrows). H&E stain.

A bat receiving the white-nose syndrome vaccine during a field trial to study vaccine efficacy. 

Administering the white-nose syndrome vaccine to a bat during a field trial.

Cluster of cave myotis bats (Myotis velifer) on cave wall in Texas.

Photographs from a red wolf (Canis rufus) found dead in North Carolina, USA. (A) Adult heartworms (Dirolfilaria immitis) in the right ventricle and atria of the heart and extending into the pulmonary artery. (B) Hard, haired nodule on the medial surface of the distal radius of the right leg.

Photomicrographs from the lung of an eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) found dead in Wisconsin, U.S.A. (A) A bronchiole (arrow) contains numerous neutrophils. H&E stain. Inset: Bronchiolar epithelium is overlain by Gram-negative bacteria. Brown and Hopps stain. Bar = 20 µm.

Photographs from an eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) found dead in Wisconsin, U.S.A.  (A) The lung contained multifocal firm red areas (arrows) and multifocal areas of hemorrhage (arrowhead). (B) Firm areas are red to tan on cut section and airways contain mucoid red to tan fluid.

Photomicrographs from a desert cottontail found dead in Texas, U.S.A. showing (A) panlobular hepatocellular dissociation and necrosis and (B) intra-alveolar edema fluid (asterisk) and foamy pulmonary macrophages (arrows) in the lung.

Photographs from an adult female mountain cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus nuttallii) found dead in Montana, U.S.A. (A) Liver with random foci of necrosis (asterisk) characterized by accumulation of cellular detritus intermingled with fibrin and colonies of small coccoid bacteria (inset). H&E stain.

Photographs from two mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) found dead within a warm-water retention pond in Minnesota, US. (A) Jejunum with superficial pseudomembranes and deep mucosal granulomatous inflammation (clear arrow). Small degenerated metazoan parasites are present rarely within the inflamed areas (black arrow). H&E stain. (B).

Photographs from two mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) found dead within a warm-water retention pond in Minnesota, US. (A) Caeca with mucosal roughening and caseous plaque formation. A larger trematode (arrow) is found within. (B) Dilated and thinned intestine containing watery intestinal content with pinpoint white material.

Photomicrographs from a Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) from Massachusetts, USA. (A) Multiple pale foci of acute hepatic necrosis. (B) Multiple foci of acute pancreatic necrosis (arrow).

Photographs from a Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) from Massachusetts, USA. (A) There are scattered, small, pale foci in the liver. (B) Petechial and ecchymotic hemorrhages are present in the pancreas.

USGS National Wildlife Health Center pathologist examines a cottontail for cause-of-death determination.

Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) in Wisconsin.

Cope’s grey treefrog on a tree trunk. Seen during fieldwork in Wisconsin.

A green frog camouflaged in wetland vegetation that was seen during fieldwork in Wisconsin.

American toad tucking into the leaf litter seen during fieldwork in Wisconsin.

Cope’s grey treefrog, green morph, on a tree trunk. Seen during fieldwork in Wisconsin.