Bacterial infection of the brain is relatively rare in dogs and cats. A cat at approximately three months of age was admitted to the clinic with a history of dog bite seven days before admission. On clinical presentation, the cat was unconscious and in lateral recumbency. One hour after admis...
Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a common Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium from the oral flora of dogs, typically transmitted to humans by dog bites. We report a case of C. canimorsus meningitis where there was (on presentation) no apparent predisposing risk factor and in whom we used 16S rRNA PC...
Pneumococcal meningitis in dogs and humans was characterized by a complex fatty-acid pattern in spinal...doi:10.1016/S0022-3476(69)80189-7Martha Dukes YowMosby, Inc.Journal of PediatricsYow, M. D. 1969. Ampicillin in the treatment of menin- gitis due to Hemophilus influenzae- an appraisal ...
Listeria monocytogenes, a small gram-positive rod that is ubiquitous in soil, vegetable matter, and fecal material from humans and animals, is the cause of the most common meningoencephalitis of adult cattle. Although this facultative intracellular organism occasionally causes septicemia in young calves...
Keywords: Bordetella bronchiseptica, Infliximab, Meningitis, Emerging infections Background First isolated in 1911 as the causative agent behind ca- nine distemper [1], Bordetella bronchiseptica is a gram- negative, obligate aerobe known to cause disease in dogs, pigs, and several other animals [2]...
The parasite migrates into the spinal cord and brain of accidental hosts, such as humans and dogs, after ingestion of infective larvae, for example by eating snails in garden fruit or vegetables. Recently, an ultrasensitive molecular assay which can detect tiny fragments...
This disease affects both humans and dogs and is caused by a parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi. Latin and South America are the most common areas for the disease transmission, but it seems to be increasing in pr...
The intracisternal administration of a Type I pneumococcus to mongrel dogs resulted in spinal fluid abnormalities and clinical course and outcome similar to those of meningitis in humans. In order to define the pathogenic role of pneumococcal neuraminidase and other pneumococcal extracts in experimental ...
Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a common Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium from the oral flora of dogs, typically transmitted to humans by dog bites. We report a case of C. canimorsus meningitis where there was (on presentation) no apparent predisposing risk factor and in whom we used 16S rRNA ...
AQP4 up-regulation has also been found in the brain of a human patient with brain edema secondary to acute bacterial meningitis (29), suggesting that similar mechanisms might occur in humans. Increased astrocyte AQP4 expression is not restricted to meningitis, but occurs in several pathologies ...