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IMAGING DIAGNOSIS—BACTERIAL DISKOSPONDYLITIS IN A GOAT
Author(s) -
LEVINE GWENDOLYN J.,
BISSETT WESLEY T.,
COLE ROBERT C.,
JANKE JARED J.,
NUNES JAIRO,
PORTER BRIAN,
LEVINE JONATHAN M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
veterinary radiology and ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.541
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1740-8261
pISSN - 1058-8183
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2006.00190.x
Subject(s) - medicine , epididymitis , vertebral column , pneumonia , soft tissue , pathology , nephritis , computed tomography , paraplegia , bacterial pneumonia , myelopathy , radiology , anatomy , surgery , spinal cord , psychiatry
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.