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Ovine ruminal and abomasal zygomycosis |
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| Authors: | L. Carrasco, M.A. Sierra, H. Sch nheyder,H.E. Jensen |
| Affiliation: | a Department of Anatomy and Comparative Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain b Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark c Department of Pharmacology and Pathobiology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| Abstract: | Thirty of four hundred lambs developed diarrhoea subsequent to broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy initiated because of apathy and weight loss after start of fattening. At necropsy mycotic rumenitis and abomasitis was diagnosed in one lamb. Especially intense an antibiotic therapy seems to have contributed to the fungal infection. The aetiological diagnosis was accomplished by indirect immunofluorescence staining of fungi in tissue sections. A strong and uniform reaction was obtained with heterologously absorbed anti-Absidia corymbifera hyperimmune rabbit antiserum, whereas no reactivity was seen when heterologously absorbed hyperimmune rabbit antisera towards Aspergillus spp. and Candida spp. were applied. Thus, the infective agent was identified as a zygomycete, probably Absidia corymbifera, also a common cause of mycosis in the stomachs of cattle treated intensively with antibiotics. |
| Keywords: | Zygomycosis Antibiotic therapy Mycotic infection Immunohistochemistry |
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