pleuropneumonia
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The horse developed pleuropneumonia - a bacterial respiratory infection - after the race.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
If a strictly parasitic organism, like the contagion of pleuropneumonia, it might be completely extirpated in this way.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
In contagious pleuropneumonia the large principal lobe of one side is most frequently affected, and a symmetrical disease of both lungs is very rare, if, in fact, it has ever been observed.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
It has been confounded with the later stages of pleuropneumonia, with parasitic diseases of the brain, the lungs, the intestines, and with actinomycosis.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
In general, the distinction between pleuropneumonia and bronchopneumonia is not difficult to make.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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