Epididymitis and orchitis caused by Brucella melitensis biovar 3 in a Merino ram

Clinical and ultrasonographic findings in rams with scrotal enlargement

“…Epididymitis is an inflammation of the coiled tube (epididymis) at the back of the testicle that stores and carries sperm. Brucella ovis which is commonly termed contagious epididymitis (CE) and damage ram fertility due to epididymal, testicular, and accessory sex gland modifications (28) and chronic epididymitis leads to formation of spermatocele sperm granuloma and abscessation (6,29,30). Actinobacilus seminis, Histohplis ovis, Escherichia coli, Corynyebacterium psudeotuberclosis and Pasturllea hemolyatica were approved in previous reports as a pathogenic and infectious causes leads to orchitis and epididymo-orchitis in young and mature rams and bucks (27).…”