Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2017

BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS: HOW TO SPOT AND REPORT THE Disease

Padmaja Nayudu, Usha Gaur

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 Bovine tuberculosis is a chronic bacterial disease of cattle caused by Mycobacterium bovis. In many countries, bovine tuberculosis is a major infectious disease of cattle, other domesticated animals and certain wildlife populations. It has a public health significance. Bovine tuberculosis is usually diagnosed in the live animals based on the basis of delayed hypersensitivity reactions using various tuberculin tests such as single intradermal, comparative intradermal, short thermal and stormont tests. Infection of bovine tuberculosis is often sub clinical; when present, clinical signs are not specifically distinctive. After death, infection is diagnosed by necropsy, histopathological and bacteriological examination and biochemical tests. A Bovine TB is difficult to diagnose with clinical signs alone. In the early stages of TB, clinical signs are not visible. In later stages, clinical signs may include: emaciation, lethargy, weakness, anorexia, low–grade fever, and pneumonia with a chronic, moist cough. Lymph nodes may also be enlarged .The aim of this study to diagnose bovine tuberculosis by physical, clinical and chemical techniques.

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Padmaja Nayudu, Usha Gaur, BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS: HOW TO SPOT AND REPORT THE Disease, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾2 | February‾2017

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