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IMAGING DIAGNOSIS—BACTERIAL DISKOSPONDYLITIS IN A GOAT
Authors:GWENDOLYN J. LEVINE  WESLEY T. BISSETT  ROBERT C. COLE  JARED J. JANKE  JAIRO NUNES  BRIAN PORTER  JONATHAN M. LEVINE
Affiliation:Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A and M University-College of Veterinary Medicine, 4474 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA. jlevine@cvm.tamu.edu
Abstract:
A 3-year-old intact male Boer goat was evaluated for paraplegia. Computed tomography (CT) indicated the presence of diskospondylitis, which had previously not been reported in this species, and significant compressive myelopathy. Chronic bacterial pneumonia, epididymitis, nephritis, and soft-tissue abscesses were believed to result in hematogenous spread of bacteria to the affected disk spaces. Staphylococcus spp. and Archanobacterium pyogenes were both identified from postmortem cultures of the vertebral column.
Keywords:caprine    myelopathy    spinal cord    infectious
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