Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Spontaneous nocardial brain abscess in a juvenile rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta).
- Journal:
- Journal of medical primatology
- Year:
- 2015
- Authors:
- Ferrecchia, Christie E et al.
- Affiliation:
- University of California Berkeley · United States
Abstract
BACKGROUND: A juvenile rhesus macaque presented with blindness, ataxia, and head tilt. METHODS: Postmortem gross and microscopic examination, histochemical staining and bacterial culture were performed. RESULTS: Nocardia sp. was identified as the etiologic agent of a primary pneumonia with secondary cerebral abscessation. CONCLUSIONS: Nocardiosis should be a differential diagnosis for patients with neurologic disease.
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