Veterinaria Digital - 17/03/2020

Ear necrosis in pigs: this syndrome usually takes place in weaned and fattening pigs, between 10 and 40 kg. Lesions start with a superficial vesicular dermatitis that can become hemorrhagic and cause deep necrotic ulcers with ischemia. It is a...

Veterinaria Digital - 10/03/2020

Lesions by trichothecenes in broilers. Trichothecenes are mycotoxins of the sesquiterpene group. These lesions are caused by necrosis by contact in different areas of the digestive tract. In the intestine, lesions because of microvilli loss and yellowish...

Veterinaria Digital - 3/03/2020

This enteritis, caused by Clostridium perfringens, causes high mortality and, macroscopically, enlarged intestines can be observed, with liquid to bloody content. Necrosis can be observed from the outside, and, in the internal part of the mucosa, there...

Veterinaria Digital - 25/02/2020

Bone fractures by heat stress. In high temperature periods, layers increase the respiratory rate to decrease body temperature, which leads to a decrease of the CO2 blood levels. To recover these levels, the calcium carbonate in blood increases and there...

Veterinaria Digital - 19/02/2020

Inclusion body hepatitis. This disease, caused by an adenovirus, is macroscopically characterized by enlarged, friable, pale livers, with areas with petechiae, associated with hydropericardium. It is related, sometimes, with infections by other...

Coccidiosis caused by Eimeria acervulina - 27/01/2020

Coccidiosis caused by Eimeria acervulina. This coccidia generally affects the duodenum and causes catarrhal duodenitis with whitish lesions. Its prevalence is associated to multiples factors, such as environmental humidity or the presence of vectors,...