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

Authors

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

Keywords

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

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.

Recommended Citation

Nagaraja, Tiruvoor G.; Bartley, E.; Fina, L.; Anthony, H.; and Leipold, H. (1979) "Rumen bacterial endotoxins and their possible role in the sudden-death syndrome," Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports: Vol. 0: Iss. 1. https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.2611