Pathology of Acute Henipavirus Infection in Humans and Animals

Figure 2

Pathology of dog and pig henipavirus infection. (a) Pulmonary vasculitis (arrow) and oedema in the Nipah-infected dog lung. (b) Glomerular (arrow) and tubular necrosis in the dog kidney. (c) Nipah viral RNA in dog glomerulus (arrow). Intra-alveolar multinucleated giant cell containing Nipah viral inclusions (d) (arrow) and viral RNA (e) (arrow). Bronchiolar syncytia (f) (arrow), viral antigens (g) (arrow) and RNA (h) (arrow) in Nipah-infected pig lung. Endothelial giant cell in pig pulmonary vessel (i) (arrows). (h and e) stains (a, b, d, f), immunoperoxidase stains (g, i), in situ hybridisation (c, e, h). Magnification, objective ×4 (a), ×10 (b), ×20 (c), ×40 (d-i).