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Bacterial diskospondylitis in juvenile mink from 2 Ontario mink farms
Jorge Martínez1, Beatriz Vidaña, Robert Cruz-Arambulo
1Departament de Sanitat i Anatomia Animals, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona (Martínez, Vidaña); Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), UAB-IRTA, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain (Vidaña); Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Elora, Ontario N0B 1S0 (Tapscott); Department of Clinical Studies, Ontario Veterinary College (Cruz-Arambulo) and Animal Health Laboratory (Slavic, Brash), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1H 6R8.
Abstract:
Nine juvenile mink with hind-limb paresis/paralysis from 2 Ontario farms were submitted for necropsy. Diagnostic tests revealed spinal compression and severe thoracic diskospondylitis with intralesional Gram-positive coccoid bacterial colonies. Streptococcus canis, Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis, and hemolytic Staphylococcus spp. were isolated from vertebral lesions.

