| Bacterial overgrowth is associated with enterocolitis, septicemia and death. Antibiotics implicated include penicillin, erythromycin, lincomycin, chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, bacitracin, dihydrostreptomycin, cefazolin, cephalexin, cephalothin, ampicillin, clindamycin & gentamycin. All of the above species have been implicated as potential causative agents. | | Bacterial overgrowth is associated with enterocolitis, septicemia and death. Antibiotics implicated include penicillin, erythromycin, lincomycin, chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, bacitracin, dihydrostreptomycin, cefazolin, cephalexin, cephalothin, ampicillin, clindamycin & gentamycin. All of the above species have been implicated as potential causative agents. |
− | '''Pathology:''' microscopic lesions during necropsy include extensive vascular congestion, submucosal hemorrhage and oedema, and sloughing of the absorptive epithelium throughout the GI tract
| + | Macroscopic pathology during necropsy will include a distended cecum containing blood and hemorrhagic serosal and mucosal surfaces. Microscopic pathology during necropsy will include extensive vascular congestion, submucosal hemorrhage and oedema, and sloughing of the absorptive epithelium throughout the GI tract. |