title: Concurrent swine erysipelas and Clostridium novyi infections associated with sow mortality in outdoor sows in Kenya.
abstract: A sudden increase in sow mortality was reported from a large outdoor pig-breeding unit in Kenya. The sows showed pyrexia and diamond shaped to confluent skin lesions ante-mortem. Gross pathological examination of the carcases was performed and organ samples (heart, liver, kidney, spleen, mandible lymph nodes) were sent for further diagnostic investigation. Based upon the clinical, gross- and microscopic-pathological signs, bacteriological findings and toxin testing, concurrent infection with Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae and Clostridium novyi was diagnosed as the cause of the sow mortality.
authors.affiliation: Bilkei Consulting, Bahnhofstrasse 42, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Friendship
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bilkei
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D007630:Kenya; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D013554:Swine Erysipelas / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*