Day 32

1700: Nothing unremarkable on the piglet front over the last few days.

Isolated some more Group B Salmonella today from last weeks samples, which came from the weaner pigs. As the piglets on the sows don't have the bug, but once weaned they are infected, it must be as weaners that the pigs are first exposed to it.

Had lots of animals come through the PM room this week, many of them through the SSPCA, including:

-Yorkie with bad hair matts around his hind feet, leading to bad lesions on the legs under the matts where the skin was torn and maggots were crawling around - poor dog!
- Dog found dead in a house, of course completely rotten by the time we got hold of it (skin had completely sloughed off its face so we couldn't even idenfify the breed).
-Spaniel with a massive haematoma on the dorsal and left side of the neck - apparently the dog was microchipped and the haematoma occurred within 24 hours. As there are no major arteries or veins in that part of the neck, the dog must have had a clotting disease for that amount of blood leak out, so there was nothing the owner could have done.
-Young rabbit with mucoid enteritis - this was not the first time I'd seen that over the last few weeks, so it happens quite often. On post mortem the gut is filled with mucus, hence the name of the disease, and it is thought to be caused by the bacterium E. coli.

Having far too much fun in pathology!