Blood poisoning, also known as septicaemia, is a bacterial infection that occurs when bacteria get into the bloodstream and multiply rapidly. Blood poisoning normally happens when bacteria enter the bloodstream in large numbers, and spread too quickly for the immune system to destroy them. Once in the bloodstream, some types of bacteria release poisons known as toxins that attack the body’s tissues. Blood poisoning is a potentially life-threatening infection that must be treated rapidly in order to prevent the infection from spreading to the heart and lungs, thus causing septic shock.
Blood poisoning can be caused by an external wound that has not been treated properly, or from internal trauma. Before antibiotics were discovered, blood poisoning frequently occurred in birthing women. Today, it occurs much less frequently, but due to the risk of infection with resistant bacteria, it may sometimes also occur after surgery. The first symptoms of blood poisoning are intense shivering, fever, a general feeling of sickness and ache throughout the whole body. When not treated properly severe blood poisoing can cause death within 24 hours.
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The restriction of the disease to tick-infested areas, its occurrence during seasons of tick activity, and the demonstration of A phagocytophilum in blood smears of affected lambs or other sheep in the flock are diagnostic features.
The loss of condition and ill-thrift without lameness may be difficult to recognize as tick pyemia, and the acute condition can be confused with other septicemic diseases.
Tick pyemia may also resemble other suppurative infections of the newborn, including navel ill and joint ill due to infections by other bacteria such as streptococci and Arcanobacterium (Actinomyces) pyogenes.
Tick pyemia affects lambs 2-12 wk old and is characterized by debility, crippling lameness, and paralysis.
Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary describes pyemia pyaemia as a form of septicemia due to presence of pus-forming organisms in the blood manifested by formation of multiple abscesses of a
Jan 1998 Retrobulbar pseudotumor as a manifestation of staphylococcal pyemia - R. Sakalkale, Vinod K. Kapur and A.D. Bhagwat : 441: Multifocal cystic bone tuberculosis with lupus vulgaris and
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