1Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, Izatnagar, (U.P), India
2Division of Bacteriology and Mycology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, Izatnagar, (U.P), India
3Division of Livestock Products Technology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, Izatnagar, (U.P), India
4Animal Genetics & Breeding, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
*Corresponding author: S Kumari; Email: swati.chaudhary.vet@gmail.com
Online published on 7 December, 2018.
Present study recorded pathomorphology of 10 cases (2.16%) infected with Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in slaughtered goats that has caused suppurative bronchopneumonia accompanied by lymphadenitis. The lungs lesion was characterized by either formation of caseo-calcified nodules of multiple abscesses or fully lungs lobes replaced with cheesy greenish pus. The enlargement of mediastinal lymph node was recorded with greenish yellow inspissated pus giving the characteristic spherical onion-skin appearance. Histopathologically, the lung sections were characterized by a central caseo-necrotic core admixed bacterial colonies and infiltration of polymorphonuclear cells, lymphocytes, plasma cell and macrophages. The bacterial culture isolation was confirmed the bacteria as Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis.
Suppurative bronchopneumonia, small ruminants, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
