Veterinary Clinical Medicine-I (General and Systemic)

PERITONITIS

• Inflammation of the peritoneum is accompanied by abdominal fever, toxaemia and reduction in the amount of feces.

Etiology

• Peritonitis occur as a primary disease or secondarily as part of an etiologically specific disease.
• Primary disease – it results most commonly from injury of the serosal surfaces of the alimentary tract within the abdomen.