Effect of Cattle-Specific Diseases on Carcass Inspection and Meat Quality

There are severe cattle-specific viral (foot and mouth, vesicular stomatitis, rinderpest, rift valley fever, malignant catarrhal lumpy skin, rabies, bovine leukosis, diarrhea, spongiform encephalopathy), bacterial (tuberculosis, black quarter, botulism, oedema, leptospirosis, brucellosis, anthrax, hemogenic septicemia, actinomycosis, actinobacillosis, mastitis, metritis), parasitic (lungworm, fasciolosis, cysticercosis, hydatid disease, onchocercosis), protozoal (trypanosomiasis, theileriosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, sarcosporidiosis) diseases that affect the carcass judgment meat quality. These adversely cattle health, welfare, red production. This chapter aims to describe etiology, mode of transmission, ante-mortem post-mortem findings, quality judgment, differential diagnosis these diseases.