Veterinaria Digital - 2/07/2017

Rabbits’ hepatic coccidiosis is caused by Eimeria stiedai’s infestation. Ooquists infest the epithelial cells of the biliary ducts, causing alterations in biliary secretion and, therefore, lower fat digestibility, which the liver tries to overset...

Veterinaria Digital - 25/06/2017

Shigella sp. is an enterobacterium with fecal transmission that mainly infects the animal orally, through drinking water. Some wild or urban birds and flies act as reservoirs and contaminate water. The most frequent symptomatology is dysentery, although...

Veterinaria Digital - 17/06/2017

Aflatoxins are mycotoxins from the cumarinic group, which means they cause hemorrhagic processes such as capillary hemorrhages in the large muscles and petequiae in the muscular layers of the intestine, myocardia or esophagus (see picture)

Veterinaria Digital - 10/06/2017

Avian necrotic enteritis is an infectious disease due to the growth of Clostridium perfringens in the intestinal mucosa. It is a sporulated bacterium resistant to thermal treatments up to 120ºC, so it is not eliminated by pelletization process, is able...

Veterinaria Digital - 3/06/2017

Although the presence of oral plaques in the tongue or in the palate of birds has traditionally been attributed to the presence of mycotoxins of the sesquiterpene group, there are other causes that must be taken into account to establish a differential...

Veterinaria Digital - 28/05/2017

The immune system of birds, unlike the immune system of mammals, does not have regional lymph nodes, so avian infections rapidly become septicemic, only with the effect of high body temperature as a mechanism to contain the diffusion of the microoganism....