Concurrent infection by Clostridium perfringens type A, Clostridium septicum, and Clostridium sordelli in mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) - A case report

A female mouflon, weighing 40 kilograms, was submitted to the diagnostic laboratory of Institute Veterinary Medicine Serbia for determining potential cause death. Necropsy revealed massive hemorrhages in subcutaneous and intermuscular tissue on papillary muscle. Petechiae ecchymoses were found omentum, mesentery adipose heart, kidney costal pleura. Haemorrhagic-necrotic enteritis duodenum jejunum characterized by catarrhal hemorrhagic inflammation with presence mucous bloody content, whereas gas bubbles submucosa have also been confirmed. Bacterial cultures from sampled organs identified as Clostridium perfringens type A, septicum, sordelli. Based established pathological histological changes results bacteriological, biochemical, molecular examination, state septic shock toxemia disseminated bleeding immediate mouflon The condition is a consequence enterotoxemia caused sordelli infection.