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1 GOAT DISEASES ASSISTANT DIRECTOR MAHARASHTRA SHEEP AND GOAT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA

2 Para-myxo virus Through nasal secretions and respiratory by indirect means and direct contacts High fever Oral Necrosis Catarrh Nasal discharge Diarrhea High mortality due to dehydration and respiratory problems No effective treatment Vaccination Control of outbreaks by quarantine Slaughter of sick and exposed goats Disinfection Prevent secondary infection

3 Picorna virus Direct contact Contaminated feed, bedding, tools, fence, manure Small lesions on tongue and mouth Typical vesicles on dental pad Inter-digital cleft with pronounce foot lesions Salivation Lameness Antibiotic treatment to check secondary bacterial infection Vaccination Control of outbreaks by quarantine Segregation of sick animals Disinfection and sanitizing measures Prevent secondary infection

4 Pox virus Inhalation and through broken skin Material contaminated with discharge Temperature Blisters and pustules on various parts of body, skin around mouth, nostrils, eyes, ears, udder and teat are affected Discharge from eyes and nose Use of antibiotic for early healing. Washing of lesion by H2O2 Apply antiseptic cream Vaccination Isolation

5 Orbi virus Insect borne Culicoides midges Depression and sluggishness High rise of temperature Odema of muzzle, lips, oral and nasal mucus membrane Excessive salivation Ulcers in oral mucosae Swelling of tongue and bluish in look Off-feed Lameness due to coronitis and pain in hooves Use of antibiotic to prevent secondary infections Destructions of breeding sites of midges Isolation Smoking and spraying with insecticide

6 Pox virus Direct contact Contaminated feed, bedding, tools, fence, manure Swelling as red spots at mouth commisures, lips and nostrils Vesicles followed by pustules forming scabs Loss of body conditions membrane Death due to starvation and pneumonia Use of antibiotic to prevent secondary infections. Application of antiseptic cream on lesions Isolation of sick animals

7 Bacillus anthracis Water and food contaminated with blood By insect bite Wound Infections High Fever Blood tinged foamy discharge from mouth, nose Off-feed Dullness Ceases rumination Bloat Death - Hygienic measures Annual vaccination Disinfection of walls, floors

8 Clostridium Water and Rise in temp No specific Sanitation chauvoei food contaminated Limping gait treatment Isolation with blood Septicemia Vaccination Wound infections Gas gangrene

9 Pasturella Fatigue from High fever Use of Segregation haemolytica journey Swelling in neck Sulphonamide and Vaccination predisposing region antibiotics such as factor. Labored breathing Penicillin Direct by contact Eyes swollen Contaminated Tongue enlarge feed Off-feed and water Difficulty in swallowing Death within 24 hr.

10 E-coli Contaminated Yellow diarrhea Use of Provide clean food and water Abdominal pain antibiotics and water and Campylobacter Kids stop sucking, electrolytes kaolin collapse and die Vaccination Clostridium Hemorrhagic perfringens enteritis caused congestion and ulceration of mucosa of intestine

11 Clostridium Contaminated Dullness No use of Multi-component Clostridial perfringens food and water Oral frothing treatment vaccine 2 to 4 week before Type A and D Discharge by Jaws movement kidding, again to new born affected Abdominal pain at 3 to 4 months age animals Staggering gait followed by booster dose Chewing of dirt after 15 to 20 days. Irregular Annual vaccination breathing Twitching of muscles Convulsions Grinding of teeth Coma Death

12 Fusiformis Wet, Marshy Lameness Apply 10% Proper trimming of necrophorus and badly Painful swelling Chloramphenicol misshapen over Fusiformis drained on foot between in 70% alcohol growing hooves using nodosus pastures. cleft in foot. sterilized instruments Clostridium Insanitary Rapid loss of Driving goats Keep proper pyogens conditions of body weight through foot bath sanitation E-Coli stalls containing 5% and hygiene Staphylococi Foot injury Copper Sulphate Keeping floor dry solution.

13 Clostridium Use of unclean Slight fever Streptopenicilline Colostrums feeding pyogens tools Lameness is use early stage of Fusibacterium Dirty pens One or more joint effective young ones Necrophorus Wet floor release grayish Proper disinfection Badly drained white pus of pastures navel ill with iodine General sanitation and hygiene in pens

14 Brucella Licking of Abortion occurs in Isolation and Periodic test and melitensis aborted fetus late pregnancy give rest eliminations Brucella ovis Eating placenta Before abortion Treatment is Burn foetus, placenta enter animal is uneasy not effective and bedding through mouth, Disinfect the place inhalation and with 2 % lysol through skin

15 L. monocytogene Contaminated Placentitis Use of Prevent stress pasture, grass, Abortion, Still birth antibiotics and Follow sanitation feed, water and Death of new born sulphonamides Hygiene to prevent silage. Metritis contamination Septisaemic hepatitis. Splenitis, Pyrexia Fever, Diarrhea Dullness, Off-feed Circling movement Nasal discharge Conjunctivitis Protrusion of tongue Salivation

16 Eimeria sp. Contaminated Unformed faeces Sulphamezathine Avoid humid feed and water, Loose motions 5 days oraly conditions pasture with Faeces mix with Amprolium Sanitation sporulated oocyst blood dreanching for 3 Proper hygiene Dehydration days of sheds Loose body weight Nitrofurazone Rough hair coat sulphate for 4 Anemia days Low appetite Slight fever

17 F. gigantica Contaminated Off-feed Oxyclozanide Proper land food, water with Weak, anemic, Carbon drainage snail edema under lower tetrachloride Use of CuSo4 jaw Niclozamide for Pregnant animals may killing snails in abort ponds Swollen liver Persistent diarrhea Exhaustion Dehydration

18 Dicrocoelium dendriticum Contaminated feed with snails and ants as a first & secondary hosts Low feed intake Keep standing distended Albendazole Refoxanide Proper land drainage Use of CuSo4 for killing snails in ponds Abdomen is painful upon manipulation Death in few days. Causal Cooperia Infective stage Diarrhea Albendazole Prevent pasture Strongyloides of eggs of Soiling of hind quarter Fenbendazole contamination Bunostomum worms larvae Bottle jaw Livamisole with eggs oesophagastomum are eaten up by Paleness of mucus Morental specially in grazing animals membrane Ivermectin monsoon, in spring or Inflammation of intestine kidding / rainy season Low feed intake lambing season Poor growth Mortality range 1 to 13 %

19 Moneizia Infective stage Loss of condition Fenbendazole Ploughing of grazing expansa of eggs of Unthriftiness Piperazine area and cross grazing worms larvae Albendazole with large animals are eaten up by grazing animals in spring or rainy season

20 Larvae of fly Fly deposits larvae in Shaking head Annual dosing in Use of Oestrus ovis the nostril which Pus containing first week of Nitroxinil in develop to third stage nasal discharge June, 7.5 mg winter for in upper part of nasal Sticking the nose Rafoxanide per further passage, sneezed out and drying causing kg. orally removal of in the soil problem in smooth wintering inhalation. larvae Reduced grazing and loss in body weight.

21 Tick Contact, Ticks transmit a few Cypermethrine Regular dipping of Lice bedding sheds protozoan, bacterial, viral Deltamethrin animals and rickettsial infection Amitraz Spraying or dusting of sheds with insecticide

22 Trichophyton Moist and Lesions on the Oral administration of Cleaning and verrucosum insanitary skin 5 to 7.5 mg disinfection of conditions, as circular, raised per kg BW for 7 to 10 days sheds bedding crusts and local Use fungicide Overcrowding thickening of skin Irritation on affected part Pruritis

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