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Fatal Enteritis in Goats
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The writers are deeply indebted to
Major General W.C. Paton, K.H.P., I.MS.,
for mentioning the case of his own dog to
them, thus suggesting the possibility of
the existence of canine leptospirosis in the
city, and for his keen interest throughout
the investigation. Their grateful thanks
are also due to Dr J. E. Anthony and to
Dr E. Cox for bringing the case under
report to their notice, and to Captain C.
Graham Eddy of the 1st Medical Detach-
ment, Museum & Medical Arts Service,
U. S. Army Medical Museum, for prepar-
ing the photomicrographs used in the
paper.
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FATAL ENTERITIS IN GOATS DUE TO IMMATURE AMPHISTOMES,
PROBABLY COTYLOPHORON COTYLOPHORUM*
By S. V. MUDALIAR, G.M.V.C., Lecturer in Parasitology, Madras Veterinary
College, Madras
(From the Department of Helminthology, Imperial Veterinary Research
Institute, Izatnagar)
(Received for publication on 28 April 1944)
(With Plate III)
DURING the months of February and
March 1943, 19 out of a herd of 40 goats
in the Madras Pinjrapole gosala succum-
bed to disease. During the day, it had been
the custom to take these animals out to
graze to an area round about a tank bed
near the Pinjrapole, and at night to pen
them in the stalls of the gosala.
The symptoms exhibited by the diseased
animals were a general weakness with
suspended feeding, great depression, inabi-
lity to move about and œdema of the
subcutaneous tissues, particularly of the
lower jaw. The swelling in the region of
the jaw appeared very predominant in the
morning but was less noticeable in the
evening. The goats were visibly ill for a
couple of days and by about the third day
they exhibited symptoms of diarrhoea.
The faecal matter was dark in colour, of a
thin consistency and had an offensive
smell. This was followed by prostration
and death in about five or six days.
*Paper presented before the Indian Science Congress
in year 1944.
Attempts to diagnose the condition
during life were unsuccessful. The only
feature noticed which could throw light on
its etiology was severe anaemia acco
panied with intense leucocytosis, particu
larly of the neutrophiles and eosinophiles
The faecal examination revealed a few ow
of strongyles and amphistomes.
POST-MORTEM APPEARANCES
It was not possible to conduct a pos
mortem examination on all the carcases
A careful autopsy on one of the carcases
however, revealed the following features
The rumen contained a few adult and
some immature forms of Cotylophoron
cotylophorum and a very few specimens
Fischoederius elongatus. The abomasu
was badly congested. It was noteworthy
that no forms of the large stomach worr
Haemonchus contortus were encountered
The pyloric end of the abomasum (Plate III
fig. 1) was inflamed, oedematons and has
a number of petichae. A casual examina
tion revealed several immature amphis