BACKGROUND Bovine Tuberculosis (BTB) is a widespread and endemic disease of cattle in Ethiopia posing a significant threat to public health. Regular surveillance by skin test, bacteriology and molecular methods is not feasible due to lack of resource. Thus, routine abattoir (RA) inspection will continue to play a key role for national surveillance. We evaluated efficiency of RA inspection for d...

AIM This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in slaughtered cattle in Bauchi State, Nigeria. The cause (s) of grossly suspected bTB lesions encountered at the abattoirs during post-mortem (PM), as whether due to Mycobacterium bovis alone or together with other acid fast bacilli (AFB). MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional abattoir based study was conduct...

Extension research has been conducted over the past three years over the various abattoirs, technological institutions and meat processing plants, in order to establish means of enhancing safety as well as shelf life extension. The technology applied was the process of electro-chemical activation of water by an on-site device. This device makes use of a powerful electrical field to split a sali...

Foodborne contamination especially by Staphylococcus species is of concern as many isolates the genus have been reported for their multidrugs resistance. The study was aimed at determining antimicrobial resistance isolated from abattoir. A total 100 samples were collected five different surfaces; bucket swab, butchers hand table knife swab and meat four abattoirs in Rivers State, Nigeria. trans...

The Food Standards Agency has made it clear that it wants to see a reduction in the proportion of pigs found to be carrying Salmonella when they arrive at the abattoir. The most recent results published to date (2000) show that 23% of UK pigs arriving at abattoirs carry Salmonella in their gut with 5% of pig carcases and 8% of pork sausages testing positive for Salmonella. Cattle and sheep howe...

Two specific and sensitive, indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) utilizing a protein G-peroxidase conjugate were developed to detect antibodies to the pseudorabies virus (PRV) and the transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) in pig sera. Sera from 5,337 pigs, obtained from various abattoirs in South Africa, were tested with both ELISAs. No serological evidence of infection wit...

Fascioliasis is a widely distributed parasitic zoonosis caused by the trematode Fasciola hepatica that affects livestock production and generates high economic losses. In Chilean authorised abattoirs, infected livers are condemned during veterinary inspection. This study aims to evaluate prevalence of fascioliasis in Chile from 2014 2016 also monthly 2002 2015 (cattle, pig, sheep, horse goat) s...

Effluents discharged into water bodies have high health implications to human and his livestock. The study was carried out in Kakuri, Sabo Kawo abattoirs located Kaduna south, Chikun north local government area of State, covering major part metropolis, this cover about 1,039,578 population. metropolis is the administrative capital Nigeria. It between latitudes 90°E 3? 11°32? North equator longi...