Microscopic Lesions Associated with the Isolation of Haemophilus somnus from Pneumonic Bovine Lungs
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Veterinary Pathology
- Vol. 22 (2) , 131-136
- https://doi.org/10.1177/030098588502200206
Abstract
Sixty-one of 68 sets of bovine lungs from which only Haemophilus somnus was isolated had microscopic lesions of purulent bronchiolitis and bronchopneumonia. In 37 of 61 lungs, the bronchiolar exudates were markedly necrotic with accompanying necrosis of the adjacent bronchiolar epithelium. Bronchiolitis obliterans was prominent in 23 of 28 lungs affected with chronic lesions with abscesses present in seven. Alveolar filling with inflammatory cells (neutrophils with fewer macrophages) was limited to peribronchiolar alveoli in 25 of 61 lungs and was multifocal to diffuse in the other 36. Lesions in the remaining lungs (7 of 68) were classified as fibrinous pneumonia with bronchiolitis (2), fibrinous pleuritis (2), suppurative interstitial pneumonia with vasculitis (2), and diffuse congestion (1).Keywords
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