Actinomycosis

Clinical signs

¢Bony swelling at the level of  central molar teeth

¢Painless swelling of mandible and maxilla

¢Hard and immovable

¢Pain in later stages

¢Stick pus like ,honey like consistency with hard yellow like granules ,foul smelling.

Soft tissue involvement

¢Involves esophageal groove

¢Lower esophagus

¢Reticular groove

¢Reticulum

¢Periodic diarrhea with passage of undigested food material,chronic bloat

¢Allotropahagia

¢Orchitis in bull

Treatment

¢Inj. Streptopenicillin 5 gm IM

¢Potassium iodide 10gm orally daily for 10 days

¢Isoniazid 2.5-5mg/kg PO for 30 days (24hrly)

¢10% Sodium iodide 70mg/kg IV
    ( repeated in one week)

Florfenicol 20mg/kg IM every 48 hrs

or

Oxytertracycline 10 mg/kg for 7 d