Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Prepared by
Dr. Ghalib S. Ridha
Visiting Assistant professor of
Internal medicine & Infectious
diseases.
Dept. of Internal Medicine
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Al-Fateh university
08/03/09 Tripoli, LIBYA
Dr. Ghalib's Lectures. 1
Anthra
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Synonyms: Splenic fever, Charbon, Milzbrand,
Woolsorter’s disease.
Anthrax bacilli can remain viable in the soil for more than 30
years. In an unopened carcass, the vegetative organisms are
rapidly destroyed (1 to 2 hr) at ambient temperature often
during the summer. For this reason, the carcass of an
animal dead from anthrax should not be necropsied.
08/03/09 Dr. Ghalib's Lectures. 4
Epidemiology
It is distributed worldwide with incidence varies with soil and
climate. The disease is enzootic and restricted in particular
areas, the so called “anthrax belt”.
Contaminated water
Biting flies and insects have been found to harbor anthrax, but
the incidence of this mode of mechanical vector transmission is
of minor importance.
a lethal toxin.
Other findings,
Ecchymotic hemorrhages of serosal and mucosal lining
may be found
Necropsy findings.
Acute boat
Acute leptospirosis
Lightning stroke
Bacillary hemoglobinuria
Anaplasmosis
infected areas.
Disinfection of stables, barns, pens, and equipments.
Control scavengers.