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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 24(4), 1988, pp. 700-702
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Egg yolk serositis in an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

MM McDonald and HW Taylor


ABSTRACT

An adult female American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) had diffuse, yellow, granular serosal thickening at necropsy. Light microscopic examination of affected stomach, small intestine and spleen revealed a chronic proliferative serositis associated with 3 to 15 micron eosinophilic extracellular globules identified histochemically and morphologically as egg yolk. The intracoelomic egg yolk was considered to be the cause of the serosal reaction.




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