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person  el access_time August 21 de 2026
An inspector has submitted a sample of a pig’s stomach (6 months old, crossbreed). During the inspection of the viscera at the abattoir, once the stomachs had been cleaned, on exiting the centrifuge, the presence of whitish miliary lesions was observed on the gastric mucosa of one of the stomachs, in the lesser curvature area.
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person  el access_time July 27 de 2026
Samples and images were submitted of the heart of a 10 years old, female cow, of the Alpine brown breed, in which, when performing sections on the myocardium to look for lesions of bovine cysticercosis, a whitish, sub-epicardial, focal, nodular lesion, between 0.5 and 1 cm in diameter was detected. The inspector wanted to rule […]
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person  el access_time May 4 de 2026
A case was submitted to the SESC concerning a batch of 3-month-old crossbred lambs, in which 6 carcasses presented hemorrhagic lesions. The official veterinary service suspected dog bite wounds due to the distribution of the lesions and the presence of circular wounds resembling fang entry points.
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person  el access_time April 20 de 2026
An inquiry was received regarding a carcass of an 11-month-old Holstein calf. No relevant abnormalities were observed during the ante-mortem inspection; however, post-mortem examination revealed multiple whitish nodular lesions with a necrotic appearance, distributed in a random multifocal pattern across several organs (liver, spleen, kidney, diaphragm, heart, and skeletal muscle).
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person  el access_time March 30 de 2026
During 2025,  SESC has managed a total of 118 inquiries. Of these, 12 were online inquiries and the remaining 106 corresponded to requests for laboratory analysis of samples.
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