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[[Image:woodentongue2.gif|right|thumb|125px|<small><center>'Sulpher body' of Actinobacillosis (Courtesy of Alun Williams (RVC))</center></small>]]

[[Image:woodentongue2.gif|right|thumb|125px|<small><center>'Sulpher body' of Actinobacillosis (Courtesy of Alun Williams (RVC))</center></small>]]

 

The tongue is changed to fibrous stroma with raised red nodules (2-3mm across)along the surface. This lesion is a pyogenic ganuloma containing large numbers of the bacterial rods which look like sulphur granules.

 

*If cut into [[Oral Cavity - Tongue - Anatomy & Physiology|tongue]], substance of [[Oral Cavity - Tongue - Anatomy & Physiology|tongue]] changed to fibrous stroma with raised red nodules. (2-3mm across).

This lesion is a pyogenic granuloma with central '''sulphur body'''.  

 

This type of lesion is caused by the host response to the pathogen, rather than directly a pathogen effect.

This type of lesion is caused by the host response to the pathogen, rather than directly a pathogen effect.