Volume: 54 Issue: 2
Year: 2023, Page: 589-593, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2023.54.2.589-593
Received: Oct. 22, 2022 Accepted: Jan. 19, 2023 Published: Sept. 30, 2023
Anaplasmosis is a fatal infectious disease affecting small ruminants all over the world. Haematological analysis and therapeutic evaluation of anaplasmosis were done in clinically affected goats from Thrissur district, Kerala in this study. A total of 100 blood samples from clinically affected goats were collected and microscopically examined using Field’s staining technique for anaplasmosis which revealed 50 per cent positivity. Infected goats showed significant (p <0.05) decrease in their haematological variables like haemoglobin, MCH and platelets, compared to healthy animals. The effectiveness of long-acting oxytetracycline, long-acting enrofloxacin, and imidocarb dipropionate in treating anaplasmosis was 100%, 62.5%, and 50%, respectively. Long acting oxytetracycline was the most effective drug of choice for treating the disease.
Keywords: Anaplasmosis, haematology, therapeutics, oxytetracycline
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Biswas, H., Davis, J.K., Vijayakumar, K., Vinodkumar, K. and Lakshmanan, B. 2023. Therapeutic management of clinical caprine anaplasmosis in Thrissur district, Kerala., J. Vet. Anim.Sci. 54(2):589-593
DOI: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2023.54.2.589-593