Clostridium perfringens types A and D associated with enterotoxemia in an 18-month-old goat

postmortem examination of a boer buck that died peracutely revealed bowel and liver diffusely congested and edematous. kidney was apparently edematous. clostridium perfringens type a was isolated from bowel and type d from kidney. microscopic examination revealed large areas of necrosis in the renal cortex and medulla (pulpy kidney disease), hyperemia and centrilobular necrosis of the liver, necrosis of the small-intestine wall, pulmonary edema and congestion, intense hyperemia of the cerebellum, hyperemia and edema of the brain.