The pathology of Johne's disease in sheep |
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| Authors: | MJ CARRIGAN JT SEAMAN |
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| Institution: | New South Wales Agriculture and Fisheries, Agricultural Research and Veterinary Centre, Orange, New South Wales. |
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| Abstract: | The clinical, gross and histopathological findings in 50 sheep affected with Johne's disease are described. Clinically 90% were emaciated and 20% showed severe diarrhoea. On necropsy there was thickening of the walls of the intestines, particularly of the ileum, caecum and less frequently the jejunum, but in 36% of sheep the changes were only mild. Histologically there was a granulomatous enteritis, typhlitis and colitis, with the most severe changes in the terminal ileum. High numbers of acid-fast organisms were present in the terminal ileum in over 70% of sheep. Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was cultured from only 8% of the sheep examined. |
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