Study on clinical diseases and disorders of cattle and goat at Gopalgonj District in Bangladesh

Abstract

This clinical study was undertaken at the sadar Upazilla Livestock Office, Gopalgonj, Bangladesh to determine the general clinical prevalence of clinical diseases and disorders in cattle and goats during the study period from September to December 2016. Total animals were 105, among them cattle were 60 and goats were 45. Diagnosis was performed on the basis of general examination, physical examination and clinical examination. Clinical examinations were detected 60 (48.38% of total animals) different types of diseases and disorders in cattle. Whereas fever 3, anorexia 5, bloat 2, dysentery 3, diarrhoea 4, fascioliasis 2, myiasis 5, FMD 2, papillomatosis 2, ephemeral fever 3, pneumonia 5, mastitis 4, black quarter 1 were recorded. Age wise occurrence in young and adult cattle were 35 (58.33%) & 25 (41.66%) respectively. In goat 45 (36.29% of total animal) different types of diseases and disorders were found. Whereas fever 4, anorexia 4, bloat 1, dysentery 2, diarrhoea 3, corneal opacity 2, mange 3, myiasis 4, PPR 10, pneumonia 8, tetanus 1, mastitis 3 were recorded. Age wise occurrence in young and adult goat were 20 (44.44%) and 15 (33.33%) respectively. Diseases and disorders of cattle and goats which were recorded more or less present in both young and adult animals but some of the specific diseases and disorders were in animals due to age susceptibility such as black quarter in young cattle and PPR in goat. From this study it can be said that proper vaccination, treatment and management should be given to minimize the diseases and disorders of cattle and goat.

​Prevalence of Various Clinical Diseases and Disorders in Goats at Kasba Upazilla, Bangladesh

“…Tetanus: This study recorded 2.03% cases of tetanus in goats (Table 1). The result agrees with Khan et al (2018) who recorded 2.22% of cases of tetanus. Karim et al (2014) also reported 0.5% tetanus cases.…”

“…The present study revealed a viral disease incidence of 19.84% in goats (Table 1) and supports the findings of Khan et al (2018)…”

“…The prevalence of bacterial diseases was 25.19% in goats (Table 1). The result supports Khan et al (2018) who reported 26.65% bacterial cases. Karim et al (2014) also recorded 29.88% cases.…”

“…The study revealed 13.10% of PPR cases in goats (Table 1) which is lower than Khan et al, (2018); Kabir et al, (2010) who reported 22.22% and 28.69% respectively and higher than Rahman et al (2012) who reported 5.2% PPR cases.…”

Review and Meta-Analysis of PPR in Goat and Sheep of Bangladesh from 2000 to 2019

“…As initial search results showed 344 workable scientific papers which was downed to 92 after deletion of duplicate papers. There were 39 papers selected after screening of the papers showed in the Figure 1 and among them 34 were particularly on goat (Islam et al, 2013;Karim et al, 2014;Rahman et al, 2012;Kabir et al, 2010;Rahman et al, 2011;Sardar et al, 2006;Sarker et al, 2011;Noman et al, 2011;Alam et al, 2015;Nath et al, 2014;Rabbi et al, 2014;Lucky et al, 2016;Naznin et al, 2016;Parvez, 2014;Rakshit et al, 2015;Siddiqui et al, 2016;Sarker et al, 2015;Ahmed et al, 2017;Alam et al, 2018;Amin, 2016;Bueaza, 2015;Debnath et al, 2015;Mohanto et al, 2018;Khan et al, 2018;Md. Mustafizur Rahaman, 2017;Meher et al, 2017;Sadar et al, 2018;Yousuf et al, 2017), 4 papers dealing on both sheep and goat (Hasan et al, 2012;Mondal et al, 2014;Banik et al, 2008) a single article particularly on sheep (Chowdhury, 2011).…”