Gilmour J S, Donachie W, Eales F A
Vet Rec. 1985 Sep 28;117(13):335-7. doi: 10.1136/vr.117.13.335.
Thirty-eight lambs with watery mouth were presented alive for necropsy. The most frequently found abnormality was enteritis, in 25 lambs. Bacteria were cultured from the gut contents of all lambs and bacteraemia was detected at high frequency at necropsy, though very much less frequently six hours before. Escherichia coli strains did not possess K99 antigen. It was concluded that absolute starvation and septicaemia were unlikely causes of the disease; that there is support for the hypothesis that reduced gut motility is an important early feature and, that if bacteria are involved in the aetiology, they may have a non-specific role.
38只患口水症的羔羊被活着送去做尸检。最常见的异常是肠炎，有25只羔羊出现肠炎。从所有羔羊的肠道内容物中培养出了细菌，尸检时高频率检测到菌血症，不过在6小时前检测到的频率要低得多。大肠杆菌菌株不具备K99抗原。得出的结论是，绝对饥饿和败血症不太可能是该病的病因；有证据支持这样的假说，即肠道蠕动减弱是一个重要的早期特征，而且如果细菌参与病因，它们可能起非特异性作用。
