title: Spontaneous nocardial brain abscess in a juvenile rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A juvenile rhesus macaque presented with blindness, ataxia, and head tilt.
  
  
  METHODS
  Postmortem gross and microscopic examination, histochemical staining and bacterial culture were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nocardia sp. was identified as the etiologic agent of a primary pneumonia with secondary cerebral abscessation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nocardiosis should be a differential diagnosis for patients with neurologic disease.
authors.affiliation: Office of Laboratory Animal Care, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Christie E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Ferrecchia
authors.forename: Rebecca M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ducore
authors.forename: Lois M A
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Colgin
authors.forename: Anne D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D009615:Nocardia / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009617:Nocardia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology
keywords: Nocardia spp.; monkey; nocardiosis; non-human primate