Brainstem phaeohyphomycosis due to Curvularia lunata (Cochliobolus lunatus) in a cat

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Animals 7%
• Anorexia 16%
• Antifungal Agents 17%
• Ascomycota 91%
• Ataxia 32%
• Brain 15%
• Brain Stem 55%
• Cats 51%
• Cell Biology 13%
• Cerebellopontine Angle 21%
• Cerebrospinal Fluid 40%
• Differential Diagnosis 11%
• Extremities 11%
• Felidae 17%
• Formaldehyde 14%
• Hair 15%
• Head 11%
• Horner Syndrome 21%
• Inflammation 9%
• Lethargy 18%
• Leukocytosis 16%
• Meningoencephalitis 19%
• Neurologic Examination 16%
• Nose 12%
• Pathologic Nystagmus 21%
• Phaeohyphomycosis 100%
• Polymerase Chain Reaction 18%
• Strabismus 17%
• Tomography 10%

Agriculture & Biology

• animals 5%
• anorexia 14%
• antibiotics 9%
• brain 17%
• brain stem 70%
• cats 51%
• cell biology 12%
• cerebrospinal fluid 43%
• clinical examination 14%
• computed tomography 15%
• Curvularia 17%
• Curvularia lunata 87%
• etiology 12%
• formalin 12%
• hairs 11%
• histopathology 13%
• image analysis 10%
• inflammation 11%
• internal transcribed spacers 23%
• lesions (animal) 29%
• limbs (animal) 11%
• meningoencephalitis 17%
• necropsy 12%
• neurological examination 21%
• pathogens 7%
• Pleosporales 18%
• polymerase chain reaction 19%
• tissues 5%