Difference between revisions of "Foetal Pneumonia"

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Especially foals and farm species
Due to aspiration of amniotic fluid contaminated with meconium and bacteria
- Secondary to fetal distress
- Microscopic lesions of bronchopneumonia
- Involves all lobes (versus postnatal bronchopneumonia)
Haematogenous spread
- Causes interstitial pneumonia
- Often caused by Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp. or Chlamydia psittaci
In viral abortions
- Cause bronchointerstitial pneumonia
- E.g.: IBR, PI-3 and equine viral rhinopneumonitis

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