6,502
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Treatment
==Treatment==
==Treatment==
Presentation of lamb dysentery is usually peracute, with sudden deaths occuring before treatment can be implemented. Even if animals are seen in the stages of disease preceeding death, treatment is usually ineffective. Suggested drugs include oral antibiotics<sup>merck</sup> and specific hyperimmune serum<sup>Merck, watt</sup>. Treatment of individual cases of
Presentation of lamb dysentery is usually peracute, with sudden deaths occuring before treatment can be implemented. Even if animals are found prior to death, treatment is usually unrewarding as organs are irreversibly damaged by toxins by the time signs present<sup>lewis</lewis>. Instead, a definitive diagnosis should be pursued before great losses occur,and the farmer should be encouraged to submit the carcase for further investigations.
Suggested drugs include oral antibiotics<sup>merck</sup> and specific hyperimmune serum<sup>Merck, watt</sup>.
Control of an outbreak of clostridial
Control of an outbreak of clostridial