Regurgitations in a Lamb with Acute Coenurosis-A case Report
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Evi Ioannidou
,
Dimitra Psalla
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Elias Papadopoulos
,
Anastasia Diakou
,
Vasiliki Papanikolopoulou
,
Harilaos Karatzias
,
Zoe S Polizopoulou
,
Nektarios D Giadinis
Abstract
Coenurosis is a disease of the central nervous system in sheep, caused by Coenurus cerebralis, the larval stage of Multiceps multiceps, which inhabits the small intestine of Canidae. A case of regurgitations in a 2.5 month old lamb with acute coenurosis is being reported. The lamb was presented with a sudden onset of ataxia and re-gurgitations for 10 days. The post-mortem examination revealed 4 immature C. cerebralis cysts between 0.5 and 1.5 cm in diameter located in the brainstem and cerebellum, and histopathological examination revealed multifocal pyogranuloma-tous meningoencephalitis, so a diagnosis of acute coenurosis was established. Thus, acute coenurosis should be included in the differential diagnosis of regurgi-tations in lambs.
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