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Subclinical proliferative enteropathy in sentinel rabbits associated with Lawsonia intracellularis
G E Duhamel1, E C Klein, R O Elder
1Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583-0905, USA.
Veterinary Pathology
|July 31, 1998
Abstract:
Light microscopic and ultrastructural changes of naturally acquired proliferative enteropathy were observed in two of three young sentinel New Zealand White rabbits. The etiologic agent, Lawsonia intracellularis, was demonstrated in the tissues using morphologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular methods. Proliferative enteropathy was associated with infection of villous and crypt enterocytes by intracellular organisms genotypically and antigenically related to L. intracellularis of various other animal species.