Changes

[[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.

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

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.

Small granulomatous lesions containing 'sulphur granules' of large numbers of gram-negative rods

Small granulomatous lesions containing 'sulphur granules' of large numbers of gram-negative rods

==Treatment==

==Treatment==