Fascioloides magna infection causing fatal pulmonary hemorrhage in a steer
Bruce K Wobeser1, Fritz Schumann1
1Department of Veterinary Pathology (Wobeser) and Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (Schumann), Western College of Veterinary Medicine, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
The Canadian Veterinary Journal = La Revue Veterinaire Canadienne
|November 14, 2014
Abstract:
A feedlot steer died suddenly without exhibiting signs of clinical illness. Cysts containing Fascioloides magna were found in the liver and lung. Fatal pulmonary hemorrhage was associated with these flukes. Neither death nor clinical pulmonary disease has been previously attributed to infections of adult cattle by F. magna.
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