Welcolme to Abbey Veterinary Services
Abbey Veterinary Services is a well established diagnostic veterinary laboratory (founded in 1985) specialising in histopathology and cytopathology but also provides convenient access to other services such as bacterial/fungal culture and urine calculus analysis.
We are one of the biggest diagnostic veterinary histopathology laboratories in the UK. We provide our service predominantly to clients within the UK but also have many clients throughout the world. We provide a rapid veterinary diagnostic histopathology and cytology service and we report on in excess of sixty thousand cases annually.
The majority of samples we receive are generally routine but the size of the team allows provision for specialist and collective opinions on difficult cases. Our team consists of experienced American and European Board certified as well as MRCPath qualified pathologists.
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Bearded Dragon, Small Intestine, MicrosporidiosisIn infected animals, light microscopic examination generally reveal severe hepatic necrosis with clusters of light basophilic intracytoplasmic microorganisms packing and distending hepatocytes and free in areas of necrosis.Similar microorganisms within cytoplasmic vacuoles are present in distended renal epithelial cells, pulmonary epithelial cells, gastric mucosal epithelial cells, enterocytes, and capillary endothelial cells and ventricular ependymal cells in the brain.as well as the colon, adrenal glands, and ovaries. The microorganism are gram positive and acid fast and had a small polar granule that stained using the periodic acid-Schiff reaction. Systemic infection appears relatively common.
Taken from: Elliott R. Jacobson et. al.et al. , Systemic Microsporidiosis in Inland Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps)Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 315-323