Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-71-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-4-71-2017
Short communication
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03 Apr 2017
Short communication |  | 03 Apr 2017

Unique case of granulomatous arteritis in a grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) – first case description

Nicole Cichon, Karen Lampe, Felix Bremmer, Tamara Becker, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing

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We herein report a unique case of granulomatous arteritis in a grey mouse lemur affecting multiple organs, which is not comparable to other disease entities formerly described in nonhuman primates. The features of the entity most closely resemble disseminated visceral giant cell arteritis in humans. A concise description of the disease is given, and the differential diagnoses are discussed. An idiopathic pathogenesis is suspected.
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