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Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Volume: 42 Issue: 2

  • Open Access
  • Short Communication

OUTBREAK OF MYCOPLASMOSIS IN AN ORGANISED GOAT FARM IN KANNUR DISTRICT OF KERALA

Chintu Ravishankar, P. M. Priya , Reghu Ravindran and S. Ajithkumar 

Department of Veterinary Microbiology College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Pookode, Wayanad - 673 576, Kerala

Year: 2011, Page: 66-67, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2011.42.66-67

Received: Oct. 4, 2010 Accepted: April 5, 2011 Published: Dec. 31, 2011

Abstract

An outbreak of an infectious disease was reported in a private goat farm in Kannur district of Kerala. The main clinical symptoms observed were fever, nasal discharge, cough, respiratory distress and grunting. Out of the eight sera collected from the animals of the farm, five (62.5 per cent) had antimycoplasma antibodies when tested by the rapid plate agglutination test. The disease condition was diagnosed as mycoplasmosis on the basis of the results of the serological test

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