Concurrent swine erysipelas and Clostridium novyi infections associated with sow mortality in outdoor sows in Kenya.
Vet J 2006;
173:694-6. [PMID:
16516510 DOI:
10.1016/j.tvjl.2006.01.004]
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Abstract
A sudden increase in sow mortality was reported from a large outdoor pig-breeding unit in Kenya. The sows showed pyrexia and diamond shaped to confluent skin lesions ante-mortem. Gross pathological examination of the carcases was performed and organ samples (heart, liver, kidney, spleen, mandible lymph nodes) were sent for further diagnostic investigation. Based upon the clinical, gross- and microscopic-pathological signs, bacteriological findings and toxin testing, concurrent infection with Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae and Clostridium novyi was diagnosed as the cause of the sow mortality.
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