Hemorrhagic-purulent, necrotizing meningo-encephalitis in the donkey; a cerebral nematode disease?

Fatzer, R.

Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde 118(11): 499-502

1976


ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7281
PMID: 1034343
Document Number: 102480
At post-mortem examination of 3 donkeys in Switzerland their brains exhibited necrotic purulent meningo-encephalitis with haemorrhage, severe vascular damage and many eosinophils. No parasites could be demonstrated but migrating nematode larvae (probably Strongylus vulgaris) are thought to have caused the lesions.

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