title: Vertebral osteomyelitis and meningomyelitis caused by Pasteurella canis in a dog--clinicopathological case report.
abstract: A clinicopathological case study of vertebral osteomyelitis caused by Pasteurella canis in a 2.5-year-old male Jack Russell Terrier is presented. The case was characterised by a chronic course with signs of spinal pain and acute paraplegia. The diagnosis was established by radiography, myelography, post-myelographic CT examination, and laboratory tests including routine blood work and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytology, and confirmed by postmortem pathological and microbiological examinations. Diagnostic imaging showed severe osteolysis, ventral spondylosis and spinal cord compression at the 4th and 5th lumbar vertebrae. The blood tests revealed mild leukocytosis and anaemia, while CSF cytology showed lymphocytic and mononuclear pleocytosis. Necropsy demonstrated severe osteomyelitis and meningomyelitis, but the source of infection could not be established. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first description of canine vertebral osteomyelitis caused by this organism.
authors.affiliation: Department and Clinic of Surgery and Ophthalmology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University, István utca 2 H-1078 Budapest, Hungary. pcsebi@gmail.com
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Csébi
authors.forename: Csaba
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jakab
authors.forename: Katalin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jánosi
authors.forename: Boglárka
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sellyei
authors.forename: Tamás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ipolyi
authors.forename: Zoltán
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Szabó
authors.forename: Attila
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arany-Tóth
authors.forename: Tibor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Németh
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D004285:Dogs; D008297:Male; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D010325:Pasteurella / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010326:Pasteurella Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013131:Spine / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology