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- Title
Spontaneous nocardial brain abscess in a juvenile rhesus macaque ( Macaca mulatta).
- Authors
Ferrecchia, Christie E.; Ducore, Rebecca M.; Colgin, Lois M.A.; Lewis, Anne D.
- 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.
- Subjects
PRIMATE behavior; PRIMATE reproduction; RHESUS monkeys; ANIMAL young; BLINDNESS in animals; HISTOCHEMISTRY; PNEUMONIA in animals
- Publication
Journal of Medical Primatology, 2015, Vol 44, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0047-2565
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jmp.12153