Veterinary Pathology    Multifocal Nephritis

Multifocal Nephritis

Multiple, of 1—4 mm, pale to yellow foci scattered throughout the kidney

Possible causes:

*septicemic abscesses

*embolic bacterial infection

*focal necrosis

*viral disease,

*parasite migration

*scars

*fungal infection

*metastatic tumors

*shigellosis (Actinobacillus equuli) in horse

*ascarid or hookworm larval migration in dog and cat

*E. Coli infection and Malignant catarrhal fever in cattle