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Necropsy findings were compatible with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure caused by myocarditis. Histopathology showed a disseminated infection with\n                    <jats:italic>Toxoplasma gondii<\/jats:italic>\n                    causing myocarditis, skeletal polymyositis, gastrointestinal myositis, and panuveitis. Toxoplasma-induced myocarditis should be included in the differential diagnosis of heart failure and retinochoroiditis in the fennec fox.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5326\/0400501","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,9,15]],"date-time":"2014-09-15T12:15:10Z","timestamp":1410783310000},"page":"501-507","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Heart Failure Caused by Toxoplasmosis in a Fennec Fox (Fennecus zerda)"],"prefix":"10.5326","volume":"40","author":[{"given":"Jack J.","family":"Kottwitz","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Kottwitz, Preziosi, Maggs, Bonagura) and the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (Ramos, Miller), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65201"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Diane E.","family":"Preziosi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Kottwitz, Preziosi, Maggs, Bonagura) and the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (Ramos, Miller), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65201"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Margaret A.","family":"Miller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Kottwitz, Preziosi, Maggs, Bonagura) and the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (Ramos, Miller), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65201"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jose A.","family":"Ramos-Vara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Kottwitz, Preziosi, Maggs, Bonagura) and the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (Ramos, Miller), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65201"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David J.","family":"Maggs","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Kottwitz, Preziosi, Maggs, Bonagura) and the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (Ramos, Miller), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65201"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"John D.","family":"Bonagura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Kottwitz, Preziosi, Maggs, Bonagura) and the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (Ramos, Miller), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65201"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"3280","reference":[{"key":"R1","series-title":"Feline Pract","first-page":"12","volume":"16","year":"1986","unstructured":"Dubey JP. 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