Difference between revisions of "Rumenitis"

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Neutrophilic inflammation

Opportunistic pathogens take advantage of acidotic lesions and other disturbances of rumen flora.
- e.g. F. necrophorum, fungi
- Infection with Mucor gives mucormycosis- chronic ongoing granulomatous rumenitis.
- Also agents which cause lesions in other areas of tract e.g. BVDV, actinobacillosis.

Multiple, dark red areas of swollen papillae, mainly in ventral sac and pillars.

Coagulative necrosis of papillae
Marked neutrophil infiltrate
Serofibrinous exudate
Thromboembolic spread to form areas of coagulative necrosis and abscesses in liver.

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