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*[[Intestines Catarrhal Enteritis - Pathology#"Pulpy Kidney" Disease|Pulpy kidney disease]] in well-fed 3-10 week-old lambs
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*Follows overeating high grain diet or luchious pasture
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*Starch from partially digested food enterering the intestine from the rumen allows rapid clostridial proliferation
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*Epsilon toxin activated by proteolytic enzymes causes toxaemia
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*Epsilon toxin increases intestinal and capillary permeability; also alpha toxin
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*Lambs found dead or with opisthotonos, convulsions, coma in acute phases
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*Blindness and head pressing in subacute disease; bloat in later stages
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*Hyperglycaemia, glycosuria
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*Post mortem: hyperaemia in intestine; fluid in pericardial sac; kidney autolysis with pulpy cortical softening (acute death)
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*Subacute death causes symmetrical encephalomalacia and haemorrhage in basal ganglia and midbrain
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*Enterotoxaemia in kids and adult goats
       
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