Disseminated septic meningitis in a mare.
Physical, neurologic, and clinicopathologic findings in a 3-year-old female Morgan horse with anorexia and nasal discharge suggested suppurative meningitis. Necropsy findings substantiated the tentative diagnosis. Actinomyces sp was cultured from a meningeal abscess surrounding the pituitary gland and from resolving lung abscesses.
D000818:Animals; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D006736:Horses; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008581:Meningitis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*