| contagious caprine pleuropneumonia and mannheimia haemolytica-associated acute respiratory disease of goats and sheep in afar region, ethiopia. | in april 2002, an investigation into an outbreak of acute respiratory disease in goats and sheep in milae (afar), ethiopia was conducted. the investigation involved 4 flocks (722 sheep and 750 goats in total) and comprised the disease history, clinical and post-mortem examination, and microbiological analysis of nasal swabs, lung lesions, and pleural fluid samples. clinically diseased animals exhibited severe respiratory distress, and necropsy of two of the goats demonstrated fibrinous pneumonia ... | 2006 | 17361779 |
| a study on contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (ccpp) in goats at an export oriented abattoir, debrezeit, ethiopia. | 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. | 2007 | 17966273 |
| seroprevalence of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia in kefta humera, alamata (tigray) and aba-'ala (afar), northern ethiopia. | a cross sectional study was conducted to determine the sero-prevalence of contagious caprine pleuroneumonia in three districts of tigray and afar regions of ethiopia namely; kefta humera, alamata and aba-'alla. proportions and chi-square test statistics were used to analyze the data. from a total of 863 goats and 137 sheep tested, 282 (32.68%) and 25 (18.25%) were positive for antibodies of mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae respectively using complement fixation test (cft). the seropr ... | 2009 | 18989743 |
| participatory appraisal of foot and mouth disease in the afar pastoral area, northeast ethiopia: implications for understanding disease ecology and control strategy. | foot and mouth disease (fmd) is the most economically important disease of livestock that still affects extensive areas of the world. this study described the use of participatory appraisal tools such as pair-wise ranking, matrix scoring and proportional piling to assess the perception of livestock keepers about the clinical signs and epidemiological features of cattle diseases with particular emphasis on fmd. strong agreement among informant groups (w = 0.710; p = 0.000) in pair wise ranking in ... | 2010 | 19575306 |