Clostridial enteritis and enterotoxemia

The above two diseases cause the most bacterial losses in Iranian ostriches. Clostridium are among the microorganisms of the natural intestinal flora. In cases where any kind of sudden stress, change in diet or change in the ingredients and type of diet consumed by the animal is done, this group of microbes by growing and multiplying rapidly in the intestines cause the excretion of large amounts of toxins in the intestinal environment (this bacteria Based on the type of poison produced, they are divided into types A, B, C,…).

Excreted toxins cause severe inflammation in the intestines (angitis), and these toxins enter the bloodstream after being absorbed through the intestinal wall and cause enterotoxemia and sudden death in ostriches. In necropsies, we usually see the dead animal with a stomach full of food, a bloody and inflamed intestine, thickening of the intestinal mucus, and sometimes bleeding in the intestine, which are the symptoms of Ferman’s enterotoxemia (which is usually seen at an older age). eats) the stomach and gallstones are empty and the intestines are full of blood and gas with thin walls, and necrotic spots are usually seen on the serous layer of rhodenum and geogenum of the intestine in white or yellow color. Also, sometimes in smaller animals, the accumulation of stones and blood in the lungs and liver can be seen.

The best way to deal with this disease, as mentioned at the beginning, is prevention, and currently, for this purpose, the use of enterotoxemia vaccine at the age of three weeks and repeating it again after three weeks has brought the best results.

In the epidemic stages of acute enterotoxemia in chickens under three months old, the best treatment is to use oral tetracycline as a solution in drinking water along with vaccination, and in individual (endemic) cases, the use of penicillin derivatives as Injection in the wing muscle has given the best results.

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