Difference between revisions of "Clostridium novyi"
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**Acute disease of sheep, occasionally cattle | **Acute disease of sheep, occasionally cattle | ||
**Hepatic necrosis caused by exotoxins of ''C. novyi'' type B in liver damaged by ''Fasciola hepatica'' | **Hepatic necrosis caused by exotoxins of ''C. novyi'' type B in liver damaged by ''Fasciola hepatica'' | ||
Revision as of 14:05, 7 June 2010
- Infectious necrotic hepatitis/black disease:
- Acute disease of sheep, occasionally cattle
- Hepatic necrosis caused by exotoxins of C. novyi type B in liver damaged by Fasciola hepatica
- Rapid death
- Dark discoloration of skin caused by subcutaneous venous congestion
- Fluorescent antibody test diagnostic
- Causes gas gangrene and myositis.
- May be involved in cutaneous lesions
- Causes big head in rams - oedema of subcutaneous tissues of the head, neck and cranial thorax; necrotising lethal alpha toxin