Pathogenicity
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Disease
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Clinical and postmortem signs
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Food poisoning
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Sudden onset, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and nausea. But vomiting is uncommon. Short course and rarely fatal
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Enterotoxaemic jaundice
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Depression, anaemia, icterus, haemoglobinuria and lambs die within 6-12hrs of first signs known as the yellows or yellow lamb disease
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Lamb dysentry
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A haemorrhagic and rapidly fatal enterotoxaemia. Lambs are often found dead
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Haemorrhagic enterotoxaemia (Clostridial enteritis)
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Dysentery, collapse and death. Small intestine is dark red and has gas bubbles in mucosa
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Depression, diarrhoea, death in a few hrs. Mortality 2-50%. Mucosa of small intestine has a brown psuedomembrane. Most common in deep litter units.
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Struck
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Sudden death due to an enterotoxaemia
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Pulpy kidney disease (Over eating disease)
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Odema of brain, glycosuria, sudden death. Excess fluid in body cavity, focal symmetrical encephalomalacia occurs in well-grown lambs.
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