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**Fluid in the peritoneal cavity and pericardial sac due to increased capillary permeability
**Fluid in the peritoneal cavity and pericardial sac due to increased capillary permeability
*''C. perfringens'' type C:
*''C. perfringens'' type C:
**Acute enterotoxaemia in adult sheep, 'struck'
**Sudden death or terminal convulsions in sheep at pasture
**Beta toxin plays major role in pathogenesis of the disease
**Post mortem: jejunal ulceration; hyperaemia in small intestine; fluid accumulation in peritoneal cavity; congestion of peritoneal vessels; petechial haemorrhages
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*''C. perfringens'' type D:
**[[Intestines - Catarrhal Enteritis#"Pulpy Kidney" Disease|Pulpy kidney disease]] in well-fed 3-10 week-old lambs
**[[Intestines - Catarrhal Enteritis#"Pulpy Kidney" Disease|Pulpy kidney disease]] in well-fed 3-10 week-old lambs
**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
**Epsilon toxin activated by proteolytic enzymes causes toxaemia
**Epsilon toxin activated by proteolytic enzymes causes toxaemia
**Lambs found dead or with opisthotonos, convulsions, coma
**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
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** [[Intestines - Fibrinous/ Haemorrhagic Enteritis#Colitis X|Colitis X]]
** [[Intestines - Fibrinous/ Haemorrhagic Enteritis#Colitis X|Colitis X]]
** [[Peritoneal cavity - inflammatory#In cattle|Peritonitis in cattle]]
** [[Peritoneal cavity - inflammatory#In cattle|Peritonitis in cattle]]
** [[Respiratory system - clinical signs#Dysphagia|Dysphagia in horses]]
** [[Respiratory system - clinical signs#Dysphagia|Dysphagia in horses]]