Ovine abortion associated with an anaerobic bacterium.
An anaerobic, slightly curved, tapered, corrugated, rod-shaped bacterium with O to greater than 12 flagella at each pole was isolated from 2 aborted lambs with focal hepatic necrosis. The organism stained faintly Gram-negative, but stained better by the Giemsa method. It was pleomorphic in culture, ranging from filaments containing granules to faintly staining spheroids.
D000034:Abortion, Veterinary / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D000818:Animals; D001421:Bacteria, Anaerobic; D005260:Female; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D009336:Necrosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*