Seroepidemiology and risk factor analysis of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia in Himalayan Pashmina goats

Publication date: Available online 13 December 2018Source: Small Ruminant ResearchAuthor(s): Oveas Rafiq Parray, Mohd. Iqbal Yatoo, Muheet Mir, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Hamid Ullah Malik, Shah Tauseef Bashir, Suhail Nabi MagrayAbstractContagious caprine pleuroneumonia (CCPP), a highly contagious and severe respiratory disease of goats caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumonia (Mccp) has not been reported in Pashmina goats of this trans-Himalayan region when there are ample clinico-pathological evidences of the occurrence of this disease. Further analyses of risk factors have not been carried out. Thus in this study we for the first time explored diagnostic and epidemiological aspects of contagious caprine pleuroneumonia in Pashmina goats. Diagnosis was achieved through clinico-pathological examination, culture and isolation of mycoplasma, serology and molecular detection. For epidemiology, cross sectional and multistage sampling of 433 animals in 10 villages of 3 clusters namely Nyoma, Kharnak and Henley of Changthang, Ladakh (India) was done and were screened by slide agglutination test (SAT) for mycoplasmosis and competitive enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (cELISA) for contagious caprine pleuroneumonia. Risk factor data collected through a specially designed questionner was analyzed by univariate logistic regression test followed by multivariate logistic regression of significant associations. Clinico-pathological examination revealed characteristics of pleuropne...
Source: Small Ruminant Research - Category: Zoology Source Type: research