Blood parameter changes in Korean traditional calves and pigs after foot-and-mouth disease vaccination

Abstract

This study investigated changes in certain blood parameters in calves and pigs after foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccination. In this study, five calves and five pigs were selected from groups of 10 calves and pigs, respectively, and were vaccinated with an FMD vaccine. The remaining animals formed two non-treatment control groups. Blood samples were collected from all animals on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th days post-vaccination. In the FMD-vaccinated calves and pigs on day 7 post-vaccination, white blood cell counts, blood urea nitrogen levels, and alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase activities were higher than those in the respective controls. The present data suggested that the certain hemato-biochemical parameters on cattle and pigs were meaningfully changed between before and after FMD vaccination.

Changes in cardiac markers in a calf died of foot and mouth disease

“…In another study, cTn-T, cTn-I, LDH levels in healthy calves were reported as 0.344 ng/mL, 0.03 ng/mL, 959.02 U/L, respectively, and increased in premature calves (Aydoğdu et al, 2016). Similarly the cTn-I, LDH, AST and ALT levels of calves with foot and mouth were reported significantly higher (Tunca et al, 2008;Cha et al, 2017;Salim et al, 2019;Aly et al, 2020). In this case report, the cTn-T, cTn-I, CK-MB, LDH, AST and ALT levels of the calf with myocarditis were 1.00 ng/mL, 26.68 ng/mL, 262.0 U/L, 4503 U/L, 56.6 U/L, 55.3 U/L, respectively.…”