Endocarditis is rarely reported in sheep and information presented for ovine endocarditis is based mostly on comparative findings in the cattle. Infective vegetative endocarditis of the right heart was diagnosed in a 3-year-old fat-tailed ram. Clinical findings included tachycardia, marked brisket edema, jugular veins distention and pulsation and pale mucous membranes. Hematologic abnormality i...

The mouse-protective activity of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae culture supernatant fluids exists in a polydisperse form, ranging in density from aggregates which sediment at 10,000 x g for 3 hr to soluble units which will not sediment at 198,000 x g for 12 hr. A partially purified protective antigen has been isolated from the aggregates sedimented from a concentrate of the culture supernatant fl...

We describe a case of erysipelas in a free-ranging endangered Hawaiian crow. The partially scavenged carcass exhibited gross emaciation and petechial hemorrhages in both lungs. Microscopy revealed multiple necrotic foci associated with gram-positive rods in the liver and adrenal, diffuse acute proximal tubular necrosis of kidney, diffuse necrosis and inflammation of proventricular mucosa associ...

Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a gram-positive bacillus that is found in decaying nitrogenous waste. The organism can colonize some animals, including rats, and is a cause of disease in a wide variety of animals, most commonly pigs. It is believed that soil becomes contaminated with E. rhusiopathiae via animal excrement [1]. Disease in humans nearly always occurs after occupational exposure, s...