A retrospective study of neurological disease in 118 rabbits.
A retrospective pathological study of 118 rabbits presenting with neurological disease was conducted. Diagnoses were categorized on the basis of aetiopathogenesis as inflammatory, vascular, traumatic, metabolic-toxic, neoplastic, degenerative or idiopathic. Central nervous system (CNS) lesions were present in 85 (72.0%) of the rabbits and in most of these cases (70.3%) a causative agent was identified. The majority of animals (n=78, 66.1%) had disease of an inflammatory nature and 71 of these 78 rabbits had one of two zoonotic infectious diseases: encephalitozoonosis (n=69, 58.5%) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis (n=2). Infections with zoonotic potential are therefore a major cause of CNS disease in the rabbit.
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Institute of Pathology and Forensic Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathobiology, Austria. andrea.gruber@vu-wien.ac
Pakozdy
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Weissenböck
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Csokai
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Künzel
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D000818:Animals; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D054022:Cerebrum / Q000473:pathology; D020803:Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D016890:Encephalitozoonosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009443:Neuritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D011817:Rabbits; D012189:Retrospective Studies