“…BALF samples are also useful in giving insight into the severity and stage of inflammatory reactions in the lung and in the detection of subclinical pulmonary diseases ( Van Driessche et al ., 2019 ; Shawaf et al ., 2021 ; Kang et al ., 2022 ). Recently, two studies reported the percentage of cytological BALF in dromedary camels with and without respiratory diseases ( Shawaf et al ., 2021 , 2022 ). However, several previous studies on different animal species indicated the effect of the season, gender, and age on the percentage of cells in the BALF samples ( Pacheco et al ., 2014 ; Secombe et al ., 2015 ; Hostetter et al ., 2017 ; Davis and Sheats, 2019 ).…”