Chinchilla respiratory disease — pneumonia and bacterial infection
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- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Too-frequent dust bathing can irritate the eyes and cause conjunctivitis without other respiratory signs.
- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Such infections often begin in a single organ and may involve conjunctivitis, gut inflammation, pneumonia, ear infection, womb infection or abortion.
- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* If yersiniosis spreads through the body it forms granulomatous lesions in the lungs, spleen and liver and can be fatal.
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