A 3-year-old sow, showing anorexia and listlessness, that died on the day following normal delivery, wasfound to have prominent petechial hemorrhage in the spleen and kidneys, and enlarged and hemorrhagiclymph nodes. Histopathologically, septicemic bacterial emboli were prominent, and
Actinobacillus equuliwas isolated in pure culture from various organs and lymph nodes. A 6-year-old thoroughbred horse, showingscratching, extension of the limbs and diarrhea, died and was found to have petechial or ecchymotic hemorrhagesin the lungs, heart, spleen, intestines and superficial lymph nodes. Histopathologically, hemorrhagicthrombosis were prominent in the lungs, liver, spleen and kidneys, and
Actinobacillus suis wasisolated from these organs in pure culture.
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