Diagnostic Exercise 3

Case 4 (b)


This should settle the diagnostic dilemma.

You have just seen a series of slides a fundamental basis for which is "leaky vessels".

The cause: Clostridium perfringens D enterotoxemia.

The 3-4 important gross lesions are:

Because the brain lesion requires more time to develop than sheep normally survive this disease, it is an unusual lesion.