Fig. 3. Urinary bladder from a in A review of neosporosis and pathologic findings of Neospora caninum infection in wildlife

Fig. 3. Urinary bladder from a fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) experimentally infected with N. caninum. IHC using polyclonal caprine anti-N. caninum showing marked necrotizing and widespread degeneration and necrosis of the detrusor muscle with many neutrophils and macrophages and intralesional protozoan cysts and tachyzoites (A). H&E of the same tissue; open arrows indicate intracellular protozoan organisms (B). N. caninum IHC (C) and H&E (D) of protozoan tissue cysts.