Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Poonam Gupta, Shesh Asopa, Hemant Dadhich and Deepak Kumar Pankaj

Abstract:
For the present study, 380 tissue samples of intestine were examined from carcasses of pigs of either sex, irrespective of age groups and breeds subjected to Post-mortem examination during January, 2020 to December, 2020. All these samples were examined grossly and microscopically to study the various inflammatory conditions of intestine with reference to type, pattern and morphology. Out of these, 142 samples representative of gross lesions were processed for subsequent histopathological examination. An overall incidence of inflammatory conditions of intestine of pig was observed as 35.21 per cent (50 out of 142). The occurrence of different types of enteritis such as acute catarrhal enteritis, chronic catarrhal enteritis, haemorrhagic enteritis, necrotic enteritis, necro-haemorrhagic enteritis, fibrinous enteritis and eosinophilic enteritis were reported as 14.08, 4.93, 7.04, 4.23, 3.52, 0.70 and 0.70 per cent respectively. Acute catarrhal enteritis (14.08 per cent) and fibrinous and eosinophilic enteritis (0.70 per cent) were reported as the most prevalent and least prevalent inflammatory conditions, respectively, affecting intestine of pigs during the study period.