Difference between revisions of "Category:Enteritis, Fibrinous/Haemorrhagic"

Pathology

• The mucosa eroded to produce lesions of darkish-red submucosa covered in dry, crumbly fibrin.
• Is usually caused by severe damage due to secondary bacterial infection following an earlier milder insult.
• Tends to be more severe in the lower small intestine and upper large intestine.
  • Many severe infections tend to get worse further down the gut.
    • Catarrhal change may be seen in the upper small intestine and fibrinous change in the lower small intestines.
  • In the lower aprt of the bowel, where the inflammation is more severe, disease is more anaerobic.
    • Lesions are caused by anaerobic organisms- convert mild diseases into more serious disease.

Salmonellosis

Swine Dysentery

Parvovirus Enteritis

Septicaemia and Enteritis, Bacterial

Includes:Lamb Dysentery

Struck

Lamb Dysentery

Colitis X

• Affects the horse.
• Sudden onset with haemorrhages throughout body (shock) and sometimes acute foul smelling diarhoea.
• colon is acutely haemorhagic and oedematous with mucosal necrosis.
• Associated with Clostridium perfringens.
• Possibly an enterotoxaemia.