Emphysematous gastritis associated with <i>Clostridium perfringens</i> type A in a cat
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A ten‐year‐old male neutered Maine Coon cat was presented with lethargy, weakness, dehydration and inappetence of 48 hours' duration. Initial ultrasound revealed gastric distension, a normal gastric wall and segmental circumferential thickening of the jejunum wall. The cat initially improved with supportive care, but deteriorated on the second day of hospitalisation. Repeat ultrasound examination and radiography 24 hours after presentation showed marked gastric wall thickening with emphysematous changes. At gastroscopy, severe gastric mucosal discoloration was seen, suggestive of necrosis. Euthanasia was performed post‐gastroscopy due to the deteriorating clinical signs and a suspicion of generalised gastric wall necrosis. Postmortem examination and results of ancillary tests confirmed moderate necrosuppurative and emphysematous gastritis, and focal, mild, necrosuppurative and emphysematous enteritis associated with Clostridium perfringens type A infection. C perfringens infection is rare in small animals; however, it can cause severe and sometimes fatal gastrointestinal disease if the bacteria invade and colonise the gastrointestinal wall.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".