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==Treatment==
 
==Treatment==
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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</sup>. Instead, a definitive diagnosis should be pursued before great losses occur,and the farmer should be encouraged to submit the carcase for further investigations.  
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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</sup>. Instead, a definitive diagnosis should be pursued before great losses occur, and the farmer should be encouraged to submit the carcase for further investigations.  
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Suggested drugs include oral antibiotics<sup>merck</sup> and specific hyperimmune serum<sup>Merck, watt</sup>.  
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As treatment is so ineffective, much emphasis is put on to the control of lamb dysentery. Vaccination in the face of an outbreak has been shown to be effective<sup>west</sup>, and specific hyperimmune serum can also be administered<sup>Merck, watt</sup>. Oral antibiotics may be given<sup>merck</sup> but are regarded as a less appropriate therepautic.  
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Control of an outbreak of clostridial
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Management measures
disease involves a dual approach of
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management techniques and therapy.
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In the case of the enterotoxaemias,
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vaccination in the face of an outbreak
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has proved effective (West 1993).
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Alternatively, particularly for lamb
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dysentery and tetanus, antisera can be
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administered. Management measures
   
for some of the clostridial conditions
 
for some of the clostridial conditions
 
include the removal of the remainder
 
include the removal of the remainder
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