Spontaneous nocardial brain abscess in a juvenile rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta).

Background: A juvenile rhesus macaque presented with blindness, ataxia, and head tilt.
Methods: Postmortem gross and microscopic examination, histochemical staining and bacterial culture were performed.
Results: Nocardia sp. was identified as the etiologic agent of a primary pneumonia with secondary cerebral abscessation.
Conclusions: Nocardiosis should be a differential diagnosis for patients with neurologic disease.
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