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- Title
Multifocal Balamuthia mandrillaris infection in a dog in Australia.
- Authors
Peter Finnin; Govinda Visvesvara; Bronwyn Campbell; Darren Fry; Robin Gasser
- Abstract
Abstract??A 6-year-old male golden retriever, with an 8-month history of seizures and a clinical diagnosis of lymphoma in the central nervous system, was (at the owner?s request) euthanized after signs of respiratory distress and shock developed. Upon postmortem examination, the diagnoses of meningoencephalitis and pneumonia were made. A histological examination of selected tissues from both the lung and central nervous system revealed a severe, acute, multifocal, amoebic, embolic pneumonia and a severe, chronic, multifocal, nonsuppurative, amoebic meningoencephalitis. Indirect immunofluorescence analysis confirmed the presence of trophozoite and cyst stages ofBalamuthia mandrillaris. This is the first report ofB. mandrillaris(which is a free-living amoeba) causing fatal, multifocal granulomatous amoebiasis in a dog in Australia.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; DOG diseases; INFECTION; AMOEBA
- Publication
Parasitology Research, 2007, Vol 100, Issue 2, p423
- ISSN
0932-0113
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00436-006-0302-0