The aim of this study was to examine changes in the systemic immune response during the incubation period and following the onset of clinical swine dysentery, including the recovery period. Ten healthy conventional pigs were inoculated with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae. Blood was sampled at pre-inoculation, at days 4 and 14 post-inoculation, during the first 4 days with clinical signs of dysenter...

It must be clearly understood that the disease, as it occurs in jails, is in no way different from that occurring in the free population ; the only difference is one of severity, being more virulent in certain jails, and this I put down to the large number of men confined in a certain space, not necessarily overcrowded, to the depressing effect of jail life, and in certain cases to bad sanitati...

Gastrointestinal symptoms are very common in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Lupus "enteritis" is very responsive to treatment but can have devastating consequences if not detected. Most descriptions of enteritis involve the small and large bowel. This is the first report of lupus "enteritis" involving the entire gastrointestinal tract from the esophagus and stomach to the rectum. Lupus "en...