Isolation of streptococci from a fatal case of myocarditis in a captive brown bear (ursus arctos)

• Published in: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
• Main Author: Göçmen, Huban
• Other Authors: Uludağ Üniversitesi/Veteriner Fakültesi/Patoloji Anabilim Dalı., orcid:0000-0001-5874-7797, orcid:0000-0003-0537-2113, İpek, Volkan, Cangül, İbrahim Taci, ABZ-7197-2022, AAB-4360-2021, 57201970309, 56414715500
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Assoc Zoo Veterinarians 2017
• Subjects: Veterinary sciences; Brown bear; Myocarditis; Pericarditis; Ursus arctos; American black bear; Valvular endocarditis; Broiler parents; Septicemia; Streptococcus bovis streptococcus equinus complex; Animals; Endocarditis; bacterial; Fatal qutcome; Animals,zoo; Male; Streptococcal infections; Streptococcus bovis; Ursidae; Streptococcus Gallolyticus; Bacteremia; Animal; Bacterial endocarditis; Bear; Case report; Fatality; Isolation and purification; Microbiology; Pathology; Streptococcus equinus; Streptococcus infection; Veterinary; Zoo animal
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11452/33750; https://doi.org/10.1638/2015-0302.1

A 10-yr-old, male brown bear (Ursus arctos) from Bursa Zoo in Turkey died without any apparent signs. Severe purulent pericarditis and myocarditis with mild ascites, lung edema, and moderate liver congestion were observed during necropsy. Microscopically, there were severe neutrophilic infiltrations in the myocardium and thoracic lymph nodes. A member of the Streptococcus bovis-Streptococcus equinus complex (SBSEC) was isolated and identified phenotypically.