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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 41(2), 2005, pp. 431-434
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Kurloff Cells in Peripheral Blood and Organs of Wild Capybaras

Luis Fernando Jara1, Jairo Mauricio Sánchez1,4, Hernán Alvarado2 and Fernando Nassar-Montoya3,5

1 Convenio Universidad de la Salle-Fundación Jaime Duque, Bogotá, Colombia;
2 Médico Patólogo, Bogotá, Colombia;
3 Convenio Universidad de la Salle-Fundación Jaime Duque, Parque Jaime Duque, Grupo de Investigación Medicina de la Conservación Universidad de La Salle-Fundación Araguatos, Carrera 15 No. 94-69, L. 4, Bogotá, Colombia
5 Corresponding author (email: araguatos{at}etb.net.co)

ABSTRACT:   Peripheral blood and tissue from twenty-two free-ranging, hunter-killed capybaras (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) collected between December 1996 and April 1997 in Casanare, Colombia (5°58'N and 71°33'W), were examined by light microscopy for Kurloff cells (KCs). Kurloff cells were observed in the blood of one pregnant adult female, and in organs from all the animals, including spleen (21 of 22 animals), liver (18 of 21), lungs (13 of 21), ovary (8 of 11), uterus (7 of 10), bone marrow (13 of 20), kidney (8 of 22), adrenal gland (6 of 20), and lymph node (4 of 14). The anatomic distribution of the KC in the wild capybaras was similar to that of the guinea pig.
  Key words:  Capybara, Hydrochaeris, Kurloff body, Kurloff cell.

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