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** However, an ELISA is often too sensitive as the toxin can be present in the normal sheep gut and the ELISA can pick this up.
** However, an ELISA is often too sensitive as the toxin can be present in the normal sheep gut and the ELISA can pick this up.
===Clinical Signs===
===Clinical Signs===
Animals are occasionally seen alive with hyperaesthesis and ataxia, which rapidly progresses to recumbency, opisthotonus, convulsions and death. In lambs which live longer, diarrhoea and signs associated with focal symmetrical encephalomalacia can be seen.
The time course from onset to death is only a few hours, so sheep are normally found dead and only occasionally seen alive.
The time course from onset to death is only a few hours, so sheep are normally found dead and only occasionally seen alive.
* Nervous signs, such as head pressing, may be seen.
* Nervous signs, such as head pressing, may be seen.
* Profuse greenish [[Diarrhoea|diarrhoea]] is seen occasionally just before death.
* Profuse greenish [[Diarrhoea|diarrhoea]] is seen occasionally just before death.
* Only mild catarrhal enteritis is seen in the gut.
* Only mild catarrhal enteritis is seen in the gut.
===Laboratory Tests===
===Laboratory Tests===