Difference between revisions of "Coccidiosis - Pig"
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*Causes sporadic, serious and sometimes fatal disease in unweaned piglets | *Causes sporadic, serious and sometimes fatal disease in unweaned piglets | ||
| − | **Causes profuse [[ | + | **Causes profuse [[Diarrhoea|diarrhoea]] |
*Very short 1 week prepatent period | *Very short 1 week prepatent period | ||
| − | *[[ | + | *[[Diarrhoea|Diarrhoea]] starts before oocysts are shed in faeces |
**Ante-mortem diagnosis is difficult | **Ante-mortem diagnosis is difficult | ||
Revision as of 19:21, 6 June 2010
- Only Isospora suis is of clinical pathogenic importance
- Causes sporadic, serious and sometimes fatal disease in unweaned piglets
- Causes profuse diarrhoea
- Very short 1 week prepatent period
- Diarrhoea starts before oocysts are shed in faeces
- Ante-mortem diagnosis is difficult
- Death usually occurs after parasites have left the host
- Post-mortem diagnosis difficult
- Isospora infections are self-limiting