Estudio clínico y lesional de un brote de fotosensibilización ovina de origen hepatógeno en Asturias

  1. M. Fuertes 1
  2. A. Martínez
  3. O. Moreno 1
  4. J. Benavides 1
  5. J. Menéndez
  6. J.F. García Marín 1
  7. V. Pérez 1
  8. M.C. Ferreras 1
  1. 1 Universidad de León
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    Universidad de León

    León, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02tzt0b78

Book:
Producción Ovina y Caprina: XXIX Jornadas Científicas. VIII Internacionales de la Sociedad Española de Ovinotecnia y Caprinotecnia
  1. Fernando Forcada Miranda (coord.)
  2. Eduardo Angulo Asensio (coord.)
  3. José Antonio García de Jalón Ciércoles (coord.)
  4. Marcelo de las Heras Guillamón (coord.)
  5. Fernando López Gatius (coord.)
  6. Marianao Domingo Álvarez (coord.)
  7. Alfonso Abecia Martínez (coord.)

Publisher: Sociedad Española de Ovinotecnia y Caprinotecnia SEOC

Year of publication: 2004

Congress: Sociedad Española de Ovinotecnia y Caprinotecnia (SEOC). Jornadas (8. 2004. Lleida)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

In this work, clinic and lesional studies are presented in an outbreak of hepatogenous or secondaryphotosensitization in Asturias in a flock of 75 sheep, which grazed in a pasture composed by clover and ryegrass. At the end of summer 2003, 13 cases of photosensitization were observed, in 5 cases a morphologicalstudy was made. Every animal studied showed necrosis of bile ducts and biliary cirrhosis. Biopathologicalanalysis demonstrated a increase of gamma-glutamyl transferase blood levels