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Disease caused by the liberation of exotoxins of CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS in the intestines of sheep, goats, cattle, foals, and piglets. Type B enterotoxemia in lambs is lamb dysentery; type C enterotoxemia in mature sheep produces struck, and in calves, lambs and piglets it produces hemorrhagic enterotoxemia; type D enterotoxemia in sheep and goats is pulpy-kidney disease or overeating disease.
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- Enterotoxemias
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, virology.
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Clostridium infect; animal only; check tag ANIMALS; coord IM with precoord animal/dis term (IM) + animal (NIM) or with animal (IM) in absence of precoord
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91(69); was see under CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS 1969-90
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- Clostridium Infections/veterinary (1966-1968)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Enterotoxemia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004767. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004767
- Enterotoxemia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterotoxemia
- Enterotoxemia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1344619