nonsuppurative polyarthritis

nonsuppurative polyarthritis
joint swelling without suppuration in lambs as a result of infection by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae through a wound. In the acute form, animals have fever and leg pain for two to three weeks; in the chronic form they have permanently swollen joints and are lame.

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