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300 goat serum samples from an export-oriented abattoir were tested for contagious caprine pleuropneumonia antibodies by the complement fixation test. The disease prevalence was 31% with no significant differences (P > 0.05) between the regions "Borena", "Bale", "Afar" and "Jinka" or the age of the goats (P > 0.05). Gross pathology and histopathology of the lung primary lesions were indicative of pleuropneumonia caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae.
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Abattoirs , Antibodies, Bacterial/blood , Goat Diseases/epidemiology , Lung/pathology , Mycoplasma capricolum/immunology , Pleuropneumonia, Contagious/epidemiology , Age Factors , Animals , Ethiopia , Goats , Immunohistochemistry/veterinary , Lung/microbiology , Male , Seroepidemiologic StudiesABSTRACT
A serological study was done to establish the occurrence and determine the prevalence of two important respiratory tract pathogens, bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) and bovine herpesvirus-4 (BHV-4), in cattle in Ethiopia. Prevalence rates for specific antibodies of 92.5% and 22.3% were recorded for BRSV and BHV-4, respectively. The presence of antibodies against these viruses in cattle from Ethiopia is recorded for the first time in this report. Our data suggests diseases caused by these viruses occur in Ethiopia but, perhaps because disease signs are not specific, they have not been recognized in the past.
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Cattle Diseases/epidemiology , Herpes Simplex/veterinary , Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/veterinary , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Bovine , Simplexvirus/isolation & purification , Animals , Antibodies, Viral/blood , Cattle , Cattle Diseases/virology , Ethiopia/epidemiology , Herpes Simplex/epidemiology , Prevalence , Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/epidemiology , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Bovine/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to characterize a S. equi subspecies equi strain isolated from an Ethiopian camel by different molecular techniques (Ribotyping and PCR-Ribotyping). We compared the results obtained with those generated from two strains of the Pasteur Collection. The ribotyping showed the highest power of differentiation, distinguishing between the strains analyzed, whereas PCR-Ribotyping was able only to differentiate the camel isolate but not the strains from the Pasteur Collection. The application of this technique will be very useful to establish a clonal relationship among equine and camelids strains and help the prevention and cure of the equine and camel pathology.
