Histological Study of Bovine Nocardial Eosinophilic Granuloma with Comparison of Splendore-Hoeppli Material

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly
ISSN 00213551
NII recode ID (NCID) AA0068709X
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Nasal eosinophilic granuloma in two cases involving a 13-month-old Japanese Black heifer (case 1) and a two-year-old Japanese Black heifer (case 2) is described. The animals suffered from bilateral nasal obstruction, with the nasal cavities being occupied by large tumor-like masses. In case 1, the nasal mucous membrane was largely thickened due to severe eosinophilic infiltration; in case 2, there were many plasma cells and eosinophils. Epithelioid cells with bacterial organisms were observed in both animals. Extracellular eosinophilic deposits of Splendore-Hoeppli material, formed between intact filamentous bacteria and live epithelioid cells, appeared to be elongated spicules and resembled those in actinomycosis. In contrast, in a separate case of Trueperella pyogenes infection, neutrophils containing intact rod-shaped bacteria showed coagulation necrosis and fusion, and finally transformed into sulfur granules without projections on the surface. These differences suggest that at least two types of Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon occur in bacterial infections.

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Creator Takeshi OYAMA Tomoko HIGASHI Yukiko TANIGUCHI Eiji HATA Shinichi HATAMA Yoshiharu ISHIKAWA Koichi KADOTA
Subject

Allergy

cattle

Fite’s acid fast stain

immunohistochemistry

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NII resource type vocabulary Journal Article
Volume 50
Issue 2
spage 169
epage 173
DOI 10.6090/jarq.50.169
Rights Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
Relation : J-STAGE
Language eng

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