Effects of infection on selected clinical and biochemical parameters in dogs.

  • 1 June 1970
    • journal article
    • Vol. 51  (3) , 253-64
Abstract
Five month old male beagles injected i.p. with a washed 18-hr culture of Salmonella typhimurium 1 × 109 organisms/kg. responded clinically with a marked depression, anorexia, and a febrile response 12 hr following infection. Animals allowed to live beyond 36 hr showed a decrease in febrile response. Although they still refused food 36 hr following infection, they appeared more alert by 60 hr post-infection. Changes at necropsy were minimal and histologic findings consistent with Salmonella infection were found in both liver and spleen. In animals infected 60 hr liver microabscesses and circumscribed foci of reticuloendothelial cell hyperplasia in the spleen indicated that the animals were responding favourably by mounting a defence against the infection.