Gastritis, Chronic
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- Chronic gastritis is usually proliferative rather any other type of gastric inflammation.
- Usually a parasitic cause.
- Occurs mostly in the pig and in cattle.
- Pig
- Redworms (Hyostrongylus rubidis)
- Seen mostly in sows, and are present in up to 30% of pig herds.
- Small numbers produce little pathology, but large numbers cause thin sow syndrome.
- Animals eat well but slowly lose condition.
- Cattle
- Ostertagiasis produces a condition similar to thin sow syndrome.