Genital infection of ram hoggets associated with a gram-negative pleomorphic organism

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An acute epididymitis affecting mainly young rams and associated with a gram-negative pleomorphic organism was first reported in New Zealand in 1955 (1). Subsequently a similar syndrome attributed to Actinobacillus seminis has been reported in Border Leicester and other rams in Australia (2) (3) (4). A like condition also described in Australia in a single crossbred ram was causally attributed to Histophilus ovis (5). Actinobacillus seminis was isolated from an epididymal infection in a Rambouillet ram in America (6) and from a Dorper ram in South Africa(7).