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==Diseases Involving [[Reactive Node Diseases]]==

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==~~Diseases Parasitising~~ the ~~Lymphocytes==~~

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== the [[Lymphocyte

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*organism grows in the lymphocytes and ruptures them

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*if large infecting dose

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~~:- may be rapidly fatal since animal may no tb e able to mount an immunological attack~~

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*if smaller infecting dose

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~~:- loss of mature lymphocytes causes a dramatic stimulation of the remaining lymphocyte precursors~~

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~~:- node hyperplasia follows~~

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~~:- competition between lymphocytolysis by the organism and lymphocyte production by the nodes~~

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~~:- clinically~~

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~~::- may be swelling of the node at one stage and reduction in size at another~~

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~~===canine distemper===~~

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*virus

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~~===swine fever===~~

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*virus

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~~===bovine east coast fever===~~

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*protozoan

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~~===[[Leishmania|Leishmaniasis in the dog]]===~~

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[[~~Category:Lymph Node Responses in Disease]]~~

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[[Category:Inflammation]]

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Parasitising Diseases]]==

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