Peripheral vestibular disease associated with cryptococcosis in three cats
| Autor: | G. R. Swinney, Julia A. Beatty, PA Martin, Richard Malik, Vanessa R. Barrs |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty 040301 veterinary sciences Cat Diseases 0403 veterinary science 03 medical and health sciences medicine Animals Small Animals Labyrinthitis Cryptococcus neoformans CATS biology 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Cryptococcosis 030108 mycology & parasitology biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Otitis Media medicine.anatomical_structure Otitis Vestibular Diseases Granuloma PERIPHERAL VESTIBULAR DISEASE Etiology Middle ear Cats Female medicine.symptom |
| Zdroj: | Journal of feline medicine and surgery. 2(1) |
| ISSN: | 1098-612X |
| Popis: | Peripheral vestibular disease referable to otitis media/interna was the main reason for presentation in three cats with cryptococcosis. In two cats, Cryptococcus neoformans var neoformans was isolated from the tympanic bulla. In the remaining cat, otitis media/interna was considered to be secondary to occlusion of the auditory tube by a nasopharyngeal granuloma associated with a C neoformans var gattii infection. This report emphasises the importance of maintaining an index of suspicion for a fungal aetiology in cats with signs of otitis media/interna, particularly in countries with a high prevalence of cryptococcosis. The presence of C neoformans may be overlooked with potentially fatal consequences where only standard methods for bacterial isolation are used to examine samples obtained from the middle ear. |
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