Hematological Variations Associated with Bovine Foot and Mouth Disease Virus Infection
Journal Title: Journal of Veterinary Advances - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 9
Abstract
Hematological analysis of bovine blood was carried out to establish possible variations associated with foot and mouth disease (FMD) infection. Random sampling of FMD infected bovine blood from the reported outbreaks in Bode, Bode II and Buakaru-rotuwa wards in ilesha baruba LGA, kwara state was collected forth nightly in December, 2010, January, February, and March, 2011. Serum antibodies detection using NS-ELISA revealed out of the ninety cattle sampled in the fifteen outbreaks 37 were bulls and 53 cows in which an overall seropositivity 64 (71.11%) was recorded with seropositivity of 26.7% for bulls and 44.4% for cows. The clinical hematological picture of FMD outbreak sero-positive reactors revealed anemia, leucopenia and Leucocytosis, as distinct changes observed. The anemia observed was normocytic, hypochromic characterized anisocytosis and poikilocytosis. However, this characteristic features of the blood showed no significant (P>0.05) association with FMD sero-positive cattle by Student –T- test analysis. This finding indicates that hematological indicator could be a promising diagnostic tool for FMD. Further experimental case-control study on the hematology of FMD infected cattle is thus suggested.
Authors and Affiliations
H. O. K. Olabode , H. M. Kazeem , M. A. Raji , N. D. G. Ibrahim , B. M. J. Adah , F. A. Obafemi
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