Bacterial Diseases

Strangles or Equine Distemper or Infectious adenitis is caused by Streptococcus equi subspecies equi in horses. It is an extremely contagious disease of horses, most commonly affecting foals.

Clostridium botulinum produces potent neurotoxins during their vegetative transformation. The vegetative cells multiply rapidly and elaborate a stable and highly lethal toxins types such as B, C and D which when ingested or absorbed by tissues develops botulism.

Black Quarter affected animals develop skeletal muscle damage, severe gangrenous, necrotising, emphysematous myositis and a fatal systemic toxaemia.

Anthrax in animals is a peracute, acute and septicaemic disease of cattle and sheep leading to sudden death. The extensive enlargement of the spleen given this disease the name splenic fever.