Histopathological description of ocular and nervous lesions in domestic rabbits infected with Encephalitozoon cuniculi: an overview
This paper describes ocular and central nervous system lesions of rabbits infected with Encephalitozoon cuniculi. The histopathological analysis, together with the use of special Ziehl-Neelsen and Gomori methenamine silver stains, is the most sensitive post-mortem diagnostic test. The neurologic les...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2015 |
| País: | Costa Rica |
| Recursos: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositório: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/6823 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/veterinaria/article/view/6823 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Encephalitozoon cuniculi central nervous system granulomatous encephalitis phacoclastic uveitis sistema nervioso central encephalitis granulomatosa uveítis facoclástica |
| Resumo: | This paper describes ocular and central nervous system lesions of rabbits infected with Encephalitozoon cuniculi. The histopathological analysis, together with the use of special Ziehl-Neelsen and Gomori methenamine silver stains, is the most sensitive post-mortem diagnostic test. The neurologic lesion affects most of these patients and is related to severe multifocal granulomatous encephalitis. In many cases, microsporidial spores can be observed with the help of special stains. Ocular lesions are less frequent than nervous ones; they are characterized by a bilateral or unilateral phacoclastic uveitis. |
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