Difference between revisions of "Enzootic Pneumonia - Lambs"
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*Meningitis in young lambs and mastitis in ewes are other expressions | *Meningitis in young lambs and mastitis in ewes are other expressions | ||
[[Category:Respiratory_Bacterial_Infections]] | [[Category:Respiratory_Bacterial_Infections]] | ||
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Revision as of 19:11, 20 January 2011
- Caused by Pasteurella (Manheimia) haemolytica, possibly together with Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae
- Mainly in late spring/early summer after environmental stress i.e. handling or moving
- May be acute with producing a fibrinonecrotic bronchopneumonia and associated pleuritis
- Or tending towards chronicity with abscessation and fibrous pleural adhesions
- A septicaemic form (mortality 5%) is reported to follow the stress of movement to new pasture in the autumn in weaned lambs.
- Foci of necrosis containing many bacteria are seen at the site of initial invasion in the pharynx and in the liver
- Meningitis in young lambs and mastitis in ewes are other expressions