Rumen bacterial endotoxins and their possible role in the sudden-death syndrome

Tiruvoor G. Nagaraja; E. Bartley; L. Fina; H. Anthony; H. Leipold

doi:10.4148/2378-5977.2611

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Rumen bacterial endotoxins and their possible role in the sudden-death syndrome

Authors

- Tiruvoor G. Nagaraja
- E. Bartley
- L. Fina
- H. Anthony
- H. Leipold

Abstract

We have found that rumen bacteria contain endotoxins that are released into rumen fluid. Also rumen fluid from grain-fed cattle contains considerably more free endotoxin than rumen fluid from hay-fed cattle. Injecting cattle with rumen bacterial endotoxins may be involved with such diseases associated with high-grain feeding as the sudden death syndrome.

Keywords: Cattlemen's Day, 1979, Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station), 350, Beef, Endotoxins, Sudden death syndrome

How to Cite: Nagaraja, T. G. , Bartley, E. , Fina, L. , Anthony, H. & Leipold, H. (1979) “Rumen bacterial endotoxins and their possible role in the sudden-death syndrome”, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports. 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.2611