In this study, the prevalence of piroplasms in sheep and goats was assessed with Giemsa-stained blood smear examination, PCR and nested PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) to identify Babesia and Theileria species, respectively, in 338 small ruminants (172 sheep and 166 goats) from three sites in North-West Tunisia during the 2011 summer season. The overall infection prevalence ...

background toxoplasmosis is a widespread disease in humans and many other species of warm-blooded animals. among livestock animals, sheep and goat are more widely infected by toxoplasma gondii. this parasite is a major cause of abortion, with significant economic losses for sheep and goat breeders. objectives the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) method was employed to detect of the t. gondii dna...

Merino sheep in Thornveld, Dorper sheep and Angora goats in inland Valley Bushveld, Angora goats and Boer goats in Valley Bushveld on the coastal plateau, and springbok, Antidorcas marsupialis, and black wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou, in Karroid Mountainveld, all in the Eastern Cape Province, were examined for the larvae of nasal bot flies. The sheep and goats were infested with the larvae of O...

The prevalence of brucellosis in cattle, sheep and goats in Iran was investigated serologically during the years 1970-1984. The number of serum sam­ ples tested in this period was 175 676 from cattle and 110 817 from sheep and goats. The percentages of seropositive samples were 17.6% for cattle and 14.7% for sheep and goats. The results obtained demonstrate the value of the simul­ taneous use o...

  Protection of animals immunized against Bacillus anthracis is usually demonstrated by challenging with an appropriate dose of a strain of Bacillus anthracis that is lethal to unvaccinated animals inoculated at the same time. In this study the protective efficacy in anthrax vaccine (34F2 sterne strain spore) was evaluated in sheep, goats and guinea pigs challenged with subcutaneous inoculation...

AIM The aim of the present study is to assess the prevalence of intestinal and haemoprotozoan parasites of small ruminants (Sheep and Goats) in North Western part of Tamil Nadu, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 630 faecal samples (251-sheep, 379-goats) and 554 blood smears (242-sheep, 312-goats) were examined, for the presence of eggs of intestinal and haemoprotozoan parasites, respect...

The placenta of domestic sheep plays a key role in horizontal transmission of classical scrapie. Domestic goats are frequently raised with sheep and are susceptible to classical scrapie, yet potential routes of transmission from goats to sheep are not fully defined. Sparse accumulation of disease-associated prion protein in cotyledons casts doubt about the role of the goat's placenta. Thus, rel...

UNLABELLED Antigenic and genetic typing of pestiviruses isolated from Indian sheep and goats was carried out. Testing of 1777 sheep and 1026 goat blood samples collected between 2004 and 2008 resulted in isolation of twelve pestiviruses, seven from sheep and five from goats. All of them were antigenically typed as bovine viral diarrhea virus 1 (BVDV-1). Both the partial 5ʹ-UTR and entire non-st...

Cysticercus tenuicollis larval stage of dog’s parasite Taenia hydatigena located in visceral organs intermediate hosts (sheep and goats). In this study, the total 100 sheep goats’ were inspected, C. was found 21% (21/100); while rate infection 35% goats (35/100). According to months high revealed July, June, August, 40% (4/10), 30% (3/10), 25% (5/25) respectively; lowest 10% (1/10) recorded Jan...