Imaging diagnosis--bacterial diskospondylitis in a goat. Academic Article

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.

authors

• Bissett, Wesley
• Levine, Gwendolyn
• Levine, Jonathan
• Porter, Brian

published proceedings

• Vet Radiol Ultrasound

author list (cited authors)

• Levine, G. J., Bissett, W. T., Cole, R. C., Janke, J. J., Nunes, J., Porter, B., & Levine, J. M.

citation count

• 8

complete list of authors

• Levine, Gwendolyn J||Bissett, Wesley T||Cole, Robert C||Janke, Jared J||Nunes, Jairo||Porter, Brian||Levine, Jonathan M

publication date

• October 2006

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Goat Diseases
• Goats
• Lumbar Vertebrae
• Male
• Paraplegia
• Spondylitis
• Staphylococcal Infections
• Testicular Diseases
• Thoracic Vertebrae
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed
• Ultrasonography

PubMed Central ID

• 17153069

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2006.00190.x

start page

• 585

end page

• 588

volume

• 47

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8261.2006.00190.x