Peste des petits ruminants, PPR (cause, symptoms, treatment)
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious, acute, or subacute viral disease of goats and sheep.
Bluetongue disease (Cause, symptoms, and control)
Bluetongue virus (BTV) is the double-stranded RNA virus, species of the Orbivirus genus, family Reoviridae.
FMD (Foot and Mouth Disease ), cause, symptoms, treatment
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is an acute, febrile, highly contagious disease of almost all cloven-hoofed animals characterized by the formation of vesicles (fluid-filled blisters) and erosions in the mouth, nose, teats, and feet with high morbidity and low mortality.
Rinderpest (Etiology, transmission, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment, and control)
Rinderpest or cattle plague is an acute, highly contagious virus disease, primarily of cattle and to a lesser degree of sheep, goats, and wild ruminants.
This disease is characterized by necrosis and erosions of the mucosa
Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD) [Etiology, transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, and control]
Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) and mucosal disease (MD) are clinically dissimilar disease syndromes and were originally described as separate diseases, but they are now known to have a common viral etiology.
Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis
It is an acute highly contagious viral disease of cattle characterized by high temperature, rhinitis, dyspnoea, abortion, meningoencephalitis, keratoconjunctivitis, and pustular vulvovaginitis.
BACTERIAL GROWTH AND NUTRITION
Bacterial Growth Generation Time Time required for a bacterium to give rise to two daughter cells under optimum conditions. • For Escherichia coli and most of the other pathogenic bacteria, -it is 20 minutes; • For Mycobacterium tuberculosis: It is 14 hours • For Mycobacterium leprae: It is 12–13 days Bacterial Count • Total count: […]
Osteodystrophia Fibrosa (Causes, symptoms, and treatment)
• This is a general term for the diseases of bone which may be due to failure of normal development or abnormal metabolism of the mature bone.
Downer cow syndrome in cattle
• Downer – unable to rise after 24 hrs and after 2 Calcium treatments. • Usually occurs as a complication following hypocalcaemic parturient paresis. Characterized clinically by, Prolonged recumbency even after 2 successive Ca therapy Down at least for 24 hrs without any apparent reason Traumatic injury to limb muscles and nerves Ischemic necrosis of […]
ACUTE PARTURIENT HYPOCALCEMIA IN BITCHES
It is a metabolic disease occurring commonly in young bitches within 2-10 days of whelping and clinically characterized by restlessness, excitement, panting, and tonic-clonic convulsions.