Volume 23, Number 3—March 2017
Dispatch
Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Wild Asian Elephants, Southern India
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Figure 1. Intestine from a wild bull elephant, estimated at 20 years of age, Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, India, 2007. Multiple white-to-tan discrete nodules (granulomas) are protruding from the serosal surface, and less well-defined areas of pale discoloration are visible within the intestinal wall. Serosal blood vessels are markedly dilated, tortuous, and congested.
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