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Cryptococcal infection of the central nervous system of a dog in the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
PALMER A. C.,
HERRTAGE M. E.,
KAPLAN W.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.1981.tb01414.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cryptococcosis , spastic , paraplegia , hydrocephalus , pathology , surgery , spinal cord , cerebral palsy , psychiatry
Cryptococcal infection of the C.N.S. is described in a two‐year‐old Borzoi dog. The animal showed limb weakness progressing over a period of five months to spastic paraplegia with head tremor, stiffness of the neck and nystagmus. On post‐mortem examination there was severe hydrocephalus and granulomatous ependymitis. Cryptococci were found in the lesions and were identified on the basis of morphology and reaction to specific fluorescent antibody. This is believed to be the first case of canine cryptococcosis reported in the United Kingdom.