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Facial swelling and fungal infection in an 8-year-old goat
By Semenova, Varvara et al.·Published in Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc·2024·Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, United States·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Facial and systemic mucormycosis caused byin a goat: case report and literature review of fungal infections in goats.
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Plain-English summary
An 8-year-old Pygora goat had a painful, non-healing swelling on her face that lasted for two weeks. Despite treatment, the swelling worsened, making it hard for her to eat and causing breathing issues. Sadly, the goat was euthanized after tests showed a large fungal infection that had spread from her nose to her lungs and kidneys. The infection was likely caused by a fungus that started in her nasal passages or from a dental issue. Unfortunately, the goat did not recover due to the severity of the infection.
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Abstract
An 8-y-old Pygora doe was presented to the University of California-Davis, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital because of non-healing facial swelling of 2-wk duration. The lesion grew despite medical treatment, causing discomfort masticating, little-to-no airflow from the right nasal passage, and led to euthanasia. On gross examination, a large facial mass with a draining tract through the skin and hard palate was identified. On section, the mass was brown-pink, homogeneous, and friable. Abscess-like masses were identified in the lungs and kidney. Histopathology of the face, including oral and nasal cavities, salivary glands, and lymph nodes, as well as the lung and kidney lesions, revealed large areas of necrosis with numerous wide ribbon-like, mostly aseptate, fungal hyphae consistent with zygomycetes. PCR for fungal organisms performed on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue from the face identified(formerly) of the orderand ansp. The lesion was suspected to have started either as a fungal rhinitis or dental feed impaction, subsequently spreading to the face and systemically to the lungs and kidney. We describe here the lesions associated with facial mucormycosis in a goat and present a literature review ofinfection in veterinary species and fungal infections in goats.
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