Hepatic coccidiosis by Eimeria stiedae in a rabbit. The liver is exceptionally hypertrophied and full of small pale nodules corresponding to lesions in the biliary canals, in this exceptionally intense infection. On the right, note the microscopic lesions which consist in epithelial hyperplasia due to parasitic infection (H&E, 40x).

 
 
 
 
 

 

 
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