Animal species |
Differential Diagnoses |
Cattle |
Neonatal diarrhea due to enterotoxigenic E coli infection; infection with verotoxigenic E coli; coccidiosis; cryptosporidiosis; bovine viral diarrhea; infection with Clostridium perfringens Types A, B, C; winter dysentery; infection with Mycoplasma bovis (polyarthritis and pneumonia) |
Sheep |
Enteric and septicemic colibacillosis; septicemia due to Histophilus spp or Pasteurella spp; coccidiosis |
Pigs |
Enteric and septicemic colibacillosis; swine dysentery; infection with Clostridium difficile of piglets and weanlings; infectionwith Brachyspira hyodysenteriae;campylobacteriosis; septicemias of growing pigs (which include Erysipelas infection, Lawsonia intracellularis, classical swine fever and pasteurellosis) |
Horses |
Septicemia (due to E coli, infection with Actinobacillus equuli, or streptococci) |
Poultry |
Coliform enteritis; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis |