The Pathogenesis of Shipping Fever in Cattle

Authors

  • R. G. Thomson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19807227

Keywords:

lesions, necrosis, nasal bacterial flora, alveolar macrophages

Abstract

The textbook fatal case of acute "shipping fever" or Pasteurellosis is a fulminating bacterial fibrinous pneumonia which implies a sudden insult deep in the lung with an agent that causes marked vascular damage which in turn accounts for the edema and fibrin.

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Published

1980-11-19

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Section

Respiratory Session