Diarrhea associated with Enterococcus durans in calves

Authors

Douglas G. Rogers, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
David H. Zeman, South Dakota Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Science, Brookings, SD
E. Denis Erickson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

January 1992

Comments

Published in J Vet Diagn Invest 4:471-472 (1992).

Abstract

Enterococci in the alimentary tract of animals are believed to be commensal bacteria.3 However, Enterococcus durans has been associated with diarrhea in foals, piglets, and puppies. The possibility that E. durans is associated with diarrhea in calves has not been established, although grampositive cocci adhered to villi, occasionally together with Cryptosporidia, have been seen histologically in the small intestine of diarrheic calves. This report describes the association of E. durans and diarrhea in 4 calves.