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Sokoto J. Vet. Sci.. 2018; 16(1): 31-37


Prevalence of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia based on gross lesions in cattle at slaughter in Adamawa State, Nigeria

Markus Isa Francis, Arthur Obinna Oragwa, Paul Idoko Ankeli, James Wabba Liba, Enenche Francis Ejeh, Mashood Abiola Raji, James Agbo Ameh, Godwin Onyemaechi Egwu.




Abstract

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia is an important economic disease of cattle caused by Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides and manifested by anorexia, fever, dyspnoea, polypnoea, cough and nasal discharges. An eleven years (2006-2016) abattoir-based retrospective data were collated and analysed from Adamawa state Ministry of Livestock Production. Out of 241,700 cattle examined at post-mortem, 8,429 had CBPP-like lesions giving a prevalence of 3.49% (95% CI: 3.41-3.56). The overall prevalence for each local government area were 2.42% (95% CI: 2.35-2.49), 5.53% (95% CI: 5.30-5.74) and 8.97% (95% CI: 8.56-9.41) for Yola, Mubi and Ganye abattoirs respectively. There was significant association (p

Key words: Adamawa state, Cattle, Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, Gross lesions, Prevalence






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