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. 1981 Dec;22(12):393–394.

Bacillary Hemoglobinuria Associated with Hepatic Necrobacillosis in a Yearling Feedlot Heifer

E D Janzen, J P Orr, A D Osborne
PMCID: PMC1790013  PMID: 7337918

Abstract

Bacillary hemoglobinuria was diagnosed in a yearling heifer in a large western Canadian feedlot. The animal had come through a terminal market in another province and arrived in the feedlot three weeks previously. Predisposing hepatic injury may have been caused by Fusobacterium infection secondary to the rumenitis of grain overload.

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