Respiratory Diseases of Small Ruminants

Respiratory Diseases of Small Ruminants

1 Department of Veterinary Microbiology, College of Veterinary Sciences, DUVASU, Mathura 281 001, India 2 Vaccinology & Immunotherapy Program, School of Public Health and VIDO-InterVac, University of Saskatchewan, 120 Veterinary Road, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5E3 3 Veterinary Type Culture Collection, National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar, Haryana 125 001, India 4Directorate of Information...

Advances in Diagnosis of Respiratory Diseases of Small Ruminants

Irrespective of aetiology, infectious respiratory diseases of sheep and goats contribute to 5.6 percent of the total diseases of small ruminants. These infectious respiratory disorders are divided into two groups: the diseases of upper respiratory tract, namely, nasal myiasis and enzootic nasal tumors, and diseases of lower respiratory tract, namely, peste des petits ruminants (PPR), parainflue...

Environmental Attributes to Respiratory Diseases of Small Ruminants

Respiratory diseases are the major disease crisis in small ruminants. A number of pathogenic microorganisms have been implicated in the development of respiratory disease but the importance of environmental factors in the initiation and progress of disease can never be overemphasized. They irritate the respiratory tree producing stress in the microenvironment causing a decline in the immune sta...

Clostridial diseases of small ruminants.

Members of the genus Clostridium are extraordinarily diverse in their natural habitats, and, when introduced to animal hosts, a few produce acute and often fatal disease. In sheep and goats, as in many other species of domestic animals, pathogenesis is often mediated by one or more of the many toxic proteins produced by these organisms. Prevention and control strategies are frequently based upo...

Diseases of Small Ruminants: a Handbook