The pathological changes associated with white muscle disease in Awassi sheep


Abstract in English

The study carried out on various aged sheep between day to five months which suffered from diagnostic clinical signs of white muscle disease. Autopsy to all the sheep dead or slaughtered and record all observations and histological biopsies of different organs was collected. The most outstanding features of gross inspection were wasting, pale in visual mucous membrane, dyspnea, lung edema, and the most parts of muscle were white.

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