Enterotoxemia
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Enterotoxemia is an infection by Clostridium perfringens
which affects several types of domesticated animals, but is not known to affect humans. It is also known as overeating disease and can kill the animals within 2 hours.
Clostridium perfringens
Clostridium perfringens is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium of the genus Clostridium. C. perfringens is ever present in nature and can be found as a normal component of decaying vegetation, marine sediment, the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates,...
which affects several types of domesticated animals, but is not known to affect humans. It is also known as overeating disease and can kill the animals within 2 hours.
External links
- http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12150_12220-26508--,00.html
- http://www.radil.missouri.edu/info/dora/RABBPAGE/GI.html#IV.