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Clinical and clinicopathologic findings in two foals infected with Bacillus piliformis
K A Humber1, R W Sweeney, J E Saik
1Department of Clinical Studies, George D. Widener Hospital, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square 19348.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
Bacillus piliformis infection (Tyzzer's disease) in foals is rarely observed clinically because of the peracute course of the disease. Clinical and clinicopathologic findings as well as information on therapeutic attempts in two foals are described. Clinicopathologic abnormalities common to both cases included leukopenia, hyperfibrinogenemia, metabolic acidosis, and hypoglycemia. Treatment was unsuccessful in both cases.