The aim of this study was to present a first case of fibro-purulent pneumonia and chronic kidney disease in the Antillean manatee. The 23-yr-old female of Antillean manatee (Therese von Bayern) was moved from the Tierpark Berlin (Germany) to the Wroclaw Zoological Garden (Poland), on the 15^th of December 2014. The manatee died on the 4^th of April 2015. Postmortem examination revealed the right lung dark red lesions indicative of pulmonary congestion and extravasations. There was a fist-sized cavity filled with a bloody fluid and fragments of lung tissue at one-third of the length of that lung. Both kidneys with no pathologic changes, pale pink, with fragile structure. Histopathologic examination revealed fibro-purulent bronchopneumonia, interstitial renal fibrosis, nephritis and glomerulonephritis with protein deposits and acute tubular necrosis (ATN), hepatic fibrosis and hepatocellular degeneration. The lung tissue expressed cytokeratin, vimentin and a CD68 macrophage marker.

To Cite This Article: Klećkowska-Nawrot J, Goździewska-Harłajczuk K, Barszcz K, Dzimira S, Janeczek M, Paszta W, Zagórski K and von Fersen L, 2019. Fibro-purulent bronchopneumonia and chronic kidney disease (ckd) in the Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus L. 1758). Pak Vet J, 39(1): 124-127. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2018.101