[The acid-base equilibrium and carbohydrate metabolism during infection with Eperythrozoon suis].

Following on from clinical observations which point to severe metabolic disturbances in association with acute Eperythrozoon (E.) suis infection, the parameters of acid-base balance (pO2, pCO2, pH, actual bicarbonate, standard bicarbonate, base excess) as well as the glucose-, lactate- and pyruvate levels, were measured in venous blood during the course of eperythrozoonotic infection. Glucose consumption was investigated in in vitro experiments with differing numbers of pathogens.

[Eperythrozoon infection in swine: effect on the acid-base balance and the glucose, lactate and pyruvate content of venous blood].

The influence of latent and of splenectomy-induced clinically manifest Eperythrozoon suis infection on the following parameters of the carbohydrate metabolism and the acid-base status was tested in venous blood of German Landrace pigs: Levels of glucose, lactic and pyruvic acid, blood-pH, base excess, actual bicarbonate concentration, standard bicarbonate concentration, pCO2, pO2. The latent E. suis infection resulted in a consistent decrease of blood glucose level.