Fig. 2

Histological lesions of the dead Aldabra giant tortoise. HE. (A) Vessel walls hyperplasia and thickened with infiltration of heterophile leukocytes (200×). (B) Verrucous hyperplasia in the epicardium. hyperemia and protein exudation in the blood vessel (100×). (C) Fatty degeneration and vacuolar degeneration of hepatocytes, and fused into large vacuoles in the live (400×). (D) Interstitial collagen fibroplasia with infiltration of a great quantity of heterophil leukocyte in the liver (400×). (E) Spleen trabecular loosing, White pulp necrosis, a great quantity of scattered golden clumps or particles in the spleen (100×). (F) Intestinal villus fusion, villous epithelial cell degeneration and necrosis. A large number of neutrophils infiltrated in the intestinal lamina propria (200×). (G) Infiltration of a great quantity of neutrophils around the purulent foci. Fibrin exudation in the renal capsule cavity. Necrosis of renal tubular epithelia in the kidney (400×). (H) Infiltration of red blood cells and protein-like exudates in the alveoli pulmonum matrix and alveolar cavity (100×). (I) Fatty degeneration in the bladder (400×)