Interstitial pneumonia / fibrinous bronchopneumonia - Atlas of swine pathology

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Possible causes: PasteurellosisPRRS

Fattening pig lung that has not collapsed when taking it out from the thoracic cavity and that shows cranioventral consolidated areas with a dark red colour and fibrin deposits in the pleura that cover almost all the surface. It is a coinfection with a respiratory virus (PRRS virus) and a bacterium (Pasteurella multocida). There is a combination of an interstitial pneumonia (virus) and a fibrinous bronchopneumonia (bacterium).