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Meningitis
Reports outline meningitis research from M. Schwartz and colleagues
December 16th, 2008
"Steroid-responsive Meningitis-Arteritis (SRMA) is a systemic inflammatory disease of juvenile to young adult dogs with a relapsing course and most prominent manifestation in the cervical meninges. Immunophenotyping and flow cytometric measurement of lymphocytes in peripheral blood (PB) and CSF was performed in the acute phase of SRMA (n = 12) and during glucocorticosteroid treatment (n = 10)," scientists in Hannover, Germany report. "Values were compared to those from dogs with other neurologic diseases (n = 63) and healthy individuals (n = 7). Dogs with SRMA had high CD4:CD8 alpha ratios in PB and low T:13 cell ratios in PB and CSF suggesting that a T(H)2-mediated...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-12-16)
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