Retrospective study of clinical diseases and disorders of cattle in Sirajganj district in Bangladesh

Abstract

A retrospective-epidemiological study of cattle diseases/disorders was conducted at Baghabari Milking zone of Bangladesh starting from June 2008 to May 2012. Out of 22066 cases, 73.95% and 17.16% diseases/disorders were recorded in cows and calves respectively. About 58.42%, 23.56% 12.48% and 5.54% cases were general and systemic, infectious, production and reproductive and surgical diseases/disorders respectively. The most common general and systemic diseases/disorders were fever (17.91%), anorexia (17.55%) and weakness (14.71%). Among infectious diseases, 78.2%, 7.02% and 6.32% respectively were mastitis, FMD and black quarter. The predominant production and reproductive diseases were milk fever (33.48%), repeat breeder (17.10%), retained placenta (14.27%), metritis (13.11) and anestrous (11.44%). The most common surgical disorders were navel ill (46.9%), wound (20.19%), abscess (8.99%) and urolithiasis (8.67%). Statistically significant variation of diseases in different seasons was also noted. We recommend for undertaking research focusing on the causes of fever, anorexia and weakness as they were the most predominant general and systemic disorders of cattle. Control measure should be initiated to reduce the burden of mastitis, repeat breeder, retained placenta and anestrous which were most common production and reproductive diseases in the study area. A case control study may help to reveal the factors responsible for such a high level of occurrence of navel ill in calves. This study generated information which is valuable not only for the clinicians, researchers, animal health companies and policy planners but also for the academicians to update veterinary curricula.

Clinical prevalence of diseases and disorders of cattle at the Upazilla Veterinary Hospital, Chauhali, Sirajganj

“…However, Sarker et al (2013) reported 17.55% cattle with anorexia. In this study, most of the anorexic cases were counted under the specific diseases.…”

“…Chauhali upazila of Siarajganj district in Bangladesh is surrounded by The Jamuna River and it is a natural calamity affected area which encourages many diseases in livestock. Although some reports on clinical case records from Bangladesh Agricultural University Veterinary Clinic (Rahman et al, 1972;Hossain et al, 1986;Das and Hashim, 1996;Samad, 2001; Samad et al, 2002), Haluaghat Upazila Veterinary Hospital, Mymensingh (Sarker et al, 1999) and Dairy Cooperatives in Pabna district (Pharo, 1987), Baghabari Milking zone of Bangladesh (Sarker et al, 2013), Ulipur Upazila Veterinary Hospital, Kurigram (Kabir et al, 2010), Khagrachari Sadar Veterinary Hospital, Khagrachari (Ali et al, 2011), Upazilla Veterinary Hospital, Mohammadpur, Magura (Karim et al, 2014), Chandanaish Upazila of Chittagong district, Bangladesh (Pallab et al, 2012) and Patuakhali Science and Technology University Veterinary Clinic (Rahman et al, 2012) are available but similar report on cattle are very limited in Chauhali upazila of Sirajganj district of Bangladesh. The objective was to determine the clinical prevalence of diseases and disorders in cattle at the Upazila Veterinary Hospital, Chauhali, Sirajganj.…”

Retrospective study of diseases of cattle at Adamdighi Veterinary Hospital, Bogra

“…Analysis of case records gives a picture of the disease problems of that local area. Reports on clinical case are available from Bangladesh Agricultural University Veterinary Teaching Hospital (Das and Hashim, 1996;Samad, 2001;Samad et al, 2002;Ali et al, 2011;Sarker et al, 2013;Sarker et al, 2015), Haluaghat Upazilla Veterinary Hospital, Mymensingh (Sarker et al, 1999) and Dairy Cooperatives in Pabna district (Pharo, 1987), Ulipur Upazilla Veterinary Hospital, Kurigram (Kabir et al, 2010), Chandanaish Upazilla of Chittagong (Pallab et al, 2012) and Patuakhali Science and Technology University Veterinary Clinic (Rahman et al, 2012). No case records are analysed in Bogra region.…”

Dynamics of clinical disease prevalence at cattle farm in Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh from 2011 to 2014

“…The average prevalence of arthritis in the farm irrespective of breeds and seasons was 1.08% (Table 1 and Figure 1) which is much lower than the findings of Sarker et al (2013). Regarding the breeds, the prevalence of arthritis was noticed higher in the Pabna breed (1.54%) than that of RCC breed (0.30%) (Table 2 and Figure 2).…”