ASPERGILLOSIS IN A GERMAN SHEPHARD DOG

A three year old female German Shephard dog was examined because of ac ute dyspnoe and hemoptysis. Endoskopic examination revealed blood in t he left cranial lobus. Thoracic radiography showed a bullous emphysema . The dog was brought to death and the heart, the lung and mediastinum were examined pathological-anatomically and pathological-histological ly. The pathologic-histological examination of the cyst revealed septa te hyphae with 45 degrees-branching, characteristic of Aspergillus sp.