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- Title
Imaging characteristics of disseminated Geosmithia argillacea causing severe diskospondylitis and meningoencephalomyelitis in a dog.
- Authors
Kawalilak, Lukas T.; Chen, Annie V.; Roberts, Greg R.
- Abstract
Key Clinical Message A 4-year-old male castrated Labrador Retriever presented for severe spinal pain. Radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging showed evidence of diskospondylitis and meningoencephalomyelitis. Blood culture revealed a Geosmithia argillacea fungal infection after DNA sequencing, initially misdiagnosed as Penicillium species. Geosmithia argillacea should be considered as a differential for disseminated fungal diskospondylitis.
- Subjects
SPONDYLITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; DIAGNOSIS of dog diseases; EUROTIALES; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing; DIAGNOSIS; MAGNETIC resonance imaging
- Publication
Clinical Case Reports, 2015, Vol 3, Issue 11, p901
- ISSN
2050-0904
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ccr3.372