Colitis X

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  • 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.