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Abstract
This review covers a historical view and etiology of oedematous skin disease which affects buffalo in Egypt, the microbiology of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis causing the disease: its virulence; clinical signs; mechanism of pathogenesis; histopathology; mode of transmission; immunological aspects; treatment and control. It is concluded that C. pseudotuberculosis serotype II is the main cause of OSD and exotoxin phospholipase D and its lipid contents of the cell wall are the major causes of pathogenesis. After declaring the role of Hippobosca equina in transmission of the causative agent among buffaloes, control of OSD is now available.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 15129580 DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0450.2001.00451.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Vet Med B Infect Dis Vet Public Health ISSN: 0931-1793