Investigation into herd-level seroprevalence of caprine herpesvirus type 1 (CpHV-1) and bluetongue virus (BTV) was conducted in 2007 in Poland. It involved the entire population of goats covered by a milk recording program in 2007, which included 49 goat herds. The number of goats examined in each herd was determined statistically in order to detect the presence of at least one seropositive ani...

Pneumonia is defined as inflammation of the pulmonary parenchyma and most commonly encountered respiratory problems in small ruminants throughout the world (Ackermann and Brogden, 2000). In goat herds, pneumonia increases production costs associated with expensive treatments which cause economic burden to small and marginal farmers. Though pneumonia is generally fatal in kids, infections and de...

Mortality among camel calves (Camelus dromedarius) is one of the most serious problems faced by camel herdsmen and, although there are several reasons for this mortality, diseases play a major role. In an investigation of outbreaks of contagious ecthyma in camels in the Turkana district of Kenya, four outbreaks were detected involving only camel calves. The principal lesions were distinct or la...

Multiple-locus variable number-tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) isolates may contribute to the knowledge of strain diversity in Argentina. Although the diversity of MAP has been previously investigated in Argentina using IS900-RFLP, a small number of isolates were employed, and a low discriminative power was reached. The aim of the present s...

Q fever is a zoonosis caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii. One of the largest reported outbreaks of Q fever in humans occurred in the Netherlands starting in 2007; epidemiologic investigations identified small ruminants as the source. To determine the genetic background of C. burnetii in domestic ruminants responsible for the human Q fever outbreak, we genotyped 126 C. burnetii-positive s...

Goat farming holds great importance in the KwaZulu Natal province, it offers means to generate income specially sustain rural households. Employment and food security are accounted for. Proper management of goats play a prime role improving productivity herds. To discover what influence various practices have on production goats, data was collected from seventy farmers uMgungundlovu district Kw...

BACKGROUND Previous studies confirmed that classical scrapie can be transmitted via milk in sheep. The current study aimed to investigate whether scrapie can also be transmitted via goat milk using in vivo (new-born lambs fed milk from scrapie-affected goats due to the unavailability of goat kids from guaranteed scrapie-free herds) and in vitro methods (serial protein misfolding cyclic amplific...

Clinical and subclinical mastitis (SCM), mostly related to intramammary infection (IMI), is prevalent in pastoralist camel herds. An IMI has implications for public animal health as well household economy. As bacterial culturing expensive, time consuming impractical a setting, other early detection methods SCM camels need be investigated. Somatic cell count (SCC) the standard detecting cattle. ...