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acute nonfatal erysipelas in sows in a commercial farrow-to-finish operation.	acute nonfatal erysipelas was diagnosed in 4 sows in a 1,000-sow commercial farrow-to-finish operation in indiana. sows were pyrexic, lethargic, lame, and had multiple, 1.3- to 7.6-cm, erythematous rhomboid skin lesions. outbreak was attributed to failure to properly vaccinate pigs. further morbidity and mortality were prevented by treatment of clinically affected sows and all pigs in close proximity with procaine penicillin g daily for 3 consecutive days and vaccination of all pigs with questio ...	1998	9524646
erysipelas in domestic white pekin ducks.	two epornitics of erysipelas were diagnosed in domestic white pekin ducks. the first was in 2,000 18-day-old ducklings with a 30% mortality. the other was in 2,400 breeder hens with losses of four or five birds a day. gross pathologic lesions in birds necropsied from both instances were enlarged swollen livers with occasional subcapsular hemorrhages. pure isolates of erysipelothrix insidiosa only were cultured from the livers. histologic examination revealed congestion and multifocal necrosis in ...	1980	7447843