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*[[Intestines Catarrhal Enteritis - Pathology#"Pulpy Kidney" Disease|Pulpy kidney disease]] in well-fed 3-10 week-old lambs
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*Pulpy kidney disease]] in well-fed 3-10 week-old lambs
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*Caused by Clostridium perfringens type D
 
*Follows overeating high grain diet or luchious pasture  
 
*Follows overeating high grain diet or luchious pasture  
 
*Starch from partially digested food enterering the intestine from the rumen allows rapid clostridial proliferation
 
*Starch from partially digested food enterering the intestine from the rumen allows rapid clostridial proliferation
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[[Category:Enteropathogenic_and_Enterotoxaemic_Clostridia]][[Category:Sheep]][[Category:Goat]]
 
[[Category:Enteropathogenic_and_Enterotoxaemic_Clostridia]][[Category:Sheep]][[Category:Goat]]
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[[Category:Enteritis,_Bacterial]][[Category:Enteritis,_Catarrhal]]

Revision as of 14:06, 1 June 2010

  • Pulpy kidney disease]] in well-fed 3-10 week-old lambs
  • Caused by Clostridium perfringens type D
  • Follows overeating high grain diet or luchious pasture
  • Starch from partially digested food enterering the intestine from the rumen allows rapid clostridial proliferation
  • Epsilon toxin activated by proteolytic enzymes causes toxaemia
  • Epsilon toxin increases intestinal and capillary permeability; also alpha toxin
  • Lambs found dead or with opisthotonos, convulsions, coma in acute phases
  • Blindness and head pressing in subacute disease; bloat in later stages
  • Hyperglycaemia, glycosuria
  • Post mortem: hyperaemia in intestine; fluid in pericardial sac; kidney autolysis with pulpy cortical softening (acute death)
  • Subacute death causes symmetrical encephalomalacia and haemorrhage in basal ganglia and midbrain
  • Enterotoxaemia in kids and adult goats