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Meningitis has a number of potential causes, including both infectious and non-infectious. Infectious meningitis can occur in any age or breed of dog. The German Shepherd dog may be predisposed to meningitis caused by Rickettsia species, and the American Cocker Spaniel to cryptococcosis meningitis.
Causes of meningitis, encephalitis, and meningoencephalitis include infection by bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, rickettsia, or parasites. In some cases, the immune system is involved, chemical agents cause the inflammation, or the cause is unknown.
The usual signs of meningitis are fever, hyperesthesia, neck rigidity, and painful paraspinal muscle spasms. Dogs and occasionally horses display this syndrome acutely and occasionally chronically, without clinical signs of brain or spinal cord involvement.
1 paź 2011 · Common signs include incoordination, ataxia and falling, cervical hyperesthesia, head tilt, nystagmus, facial and/or trigeminal nerve paralysis, circling, visual deficits, seizures, depression, and tetanic spasms. Occasionally, fever, peripheral neutrophilia, and excess non-segmented neutrophils will accompany the clinical neurological signs.
7 cze 2024 · Typical signs of meningitis in dogs include neck pain — affected animals hold their neck rigid, often with a lowered head, and have trouble turning left and right. They may also arch their backs and stand in a braced position because of a stiff spine.
8 wrz 2020 · The most common cause of meningitis in dogs is a bacterial infection that starts somewhere else in the body and migrates to the central nervous system.
16 maj 2023 · Meningitis has many infectious and noninfectious causes. Infectious meningitis usually occurs through: Bite wound; Inner ear infection; Contaminated spinal tap; Broad categories of infectious agents include viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoal, parasites, ameboid, and algal agents.
