Histopathological Observation and Pathogen Detection of
Porcine Intestine Pneumatosis Cystoides in Shangri-La City of Yunnan Province
A large number of grape-shaped transparent odorless bubbles were successively found under serosa of small intestine mesenterium in some fattening pigs in a Tibetan pig farm in Shangri-La City of Yunnan Province when the pigs were sold for slaughtering,with unknown causes,while the sick pigs had suffered from diarrhea at the piglet stage. In order to investigate the cause and pathogenesis so as to put forward prevention and control measures,the anticoagulant whole blood,small intestine tissues and mesenteric lymph nodes were collected from four sick pigs and one normal pig for PCR amplification of viral nucleic acids,bacterial isolation and culture and microscopic observation of histopathology. No any classical swine fever virus,porcine epidemic diarrhea virus,transmissible gastroenteritis virus and rotavirus nucleic acid related to diarrhea were detected;only Escherichia coli was isolated by blood agar aerobic and anaerobic culture,and the common pathogenic serotypes and virulence genes were excluded;the following symptoms were found through pathological examination such as a large number of vacuoles in the intestinal submucosa,the increased volume of intestinal gland and its goblet cells,the widened space among various tissues,the increased eosinophils and macrophages in the mesentery and its lymph nodes,and congestion in the diseased mesentery. It was concluded that the disease was likely to be caused by higher altitude,abnormal fermentation and air produced by E. coli,and it was necessary to continue to study how to prevent and control it.