clostridial diseases

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Across
  1. 3. mainly cattle; no predisposing factors; key feature: sudden death syndrome
  2. 5. mainly sheep, also cattle/goats; predisposing factors: deep wounds such as bites, sx sites, parturition injuries; key features: open wound with swelling and without gas accumulation
  3. 7. mainly horses/pigs, can be in all animals; predisposing factors: puncture wound, castration, banding, dehorning; key features: general body stiffness “sawhorse”. sensitivity to noise, sound and movement, “lockjaw”, stiff tail/prolapsed 3rd eyelid/flared nostrils
  4. 9. mainly sheep/goats, rarely cattle/young horses; predisposing factors: increase in dietary intake; key features: associated with overeating, “pulpy kidneys” due to rapid postmortem decomposition
Down
  1. 1. no specific species; predisposing factor: ingestion of preformed toxin in feed; key features: ascending paralysis
  2. 2. mainly sheep, also cattle; predisposing factors: damage to liver by the fluke fasciola hepatica; key features: large necrotic black lesion in liver
  3. 4. mainly cattle; predisposing factors: increase in dietary intake; key features: “purple gut” with sections of extremely reddened small bowel that is filled with hemorrhagic fluid
  4. 6. mainly sheep, also cattle; predisposing factors: damage or bruising to muscles from transport, injections, rough handling; key features: crackling of swollen lesion when touched, rancid butter odor on postmortem
  5. 8. cattle and sheep; predisposing factors: damage to liver by the fluke fasciola hepatica; key features: hemoglobinura, icterus, anemia