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*''C. pyogenes'' in [[Joints - inflammatory#In Sheep|arthritis]] of sheep post-dipping joint infection and [[Joints - inflammatory#In Pigs|arthritis in pigs]] and [[Joints - inflammatory#In Cattle|arthritis in cattle]]
*''C. pyogenes'' in [[Joints - inflammatory#In Sheep|arthritis]] of sheep post-dipping joint infection and [[Joints - inflammatory#In Pigs|arthritis in pigs]] and [[Joints - inflammatory#In Cattle|arthritis in cattle]]
===Overview===
===Overview===
===Clinical infections===
===''Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis''===
*Infection through shearing wounds
*Caseous lymphadenitis:
**''C. pseudotuberculosis'' carried on skin of sheep
**Infection follows tissue trauma such as shearing wounds
**Incubation period 3 months
**Chronic suppurative infection of sheep, goats and occasionally cattle
**Abscessation of superficial and internal lymph nodes if haemtogenous spread occurs
**Caseous abscesses with green colour and onion ring appearance
**Ill thrift and pneumonia may occur
**Condemnation of carcasses and hides
**Infection spread by pus from abscesses, and oculonasal secretions
**Organism survives in environment for several months
**Sandwich ELISA detects circulating antibodies to phospholipase toxin
**Control: importation measures including screening; culling of infected sheep, stict hygiene; inactivated vaccine
*Ulcerative lymphangitis in horses:
*Ulcerative lymphangitis in horses
*May cause [[Muscles - inflammatory#Abscesses|myositis]]
*In [[Bacterial skin infections#Deep pyoderma|deep pyoderma]]