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OJVRTM
Online Journal of
Veterinary Research©
(Including
Medical and Laboratory Research)
Established
1994
ISSN
1328-925X
Volume 28(6):
371-381, 2024.
Prevalence
of mycobacteria avium
and paratuberculosis
in sheep and goats (Greece).
Ikonomopoulos JA, Gazouli M, Louka J, Kominaki A, Katzoura B.
Agricultural University of Athens, Faculty of Animal Science, Department
of Anatomy and Physiology,
Athens, Greece.
ABSTRACT
Ikonomopoulos JA, Gazouli M, Louka J, Kominaki A, Katzoura B., Prevalence of mycobacteria avium and paratuberculosis in sheep and goats, Onl
J Vet Res., 28(6): 371-381, 2024. Author reports prevalence of Mycobacterium avium and M. paratuberculosis in heparinized blood of 291 sheep from 19 flocks and 117 goats from 11
flocks in Greece determined by PCR. We found 21% samples and 90% of sheep and goat flocks
tested positive. PCR-positive ranged 0-9% (IS900), 0-18% (IS1245) and 0-36%
(IS6110) for sheep, and 0-14% (IS900), 0-5% (IS1245) and 0-42% (IS6110) for
goats. Cumulative PCR-positive tests per farm ranged from 0-63% for sheep, and
0-53% for goats but only 2/30 produced negative results to all the tests
employed in this study. The results
presented here indicate that the local small ruminant population may be
tolerant to certain types of mycobacterial infections that remain clinically
silent.
Key
words:
tuberculosis of sheep and goats, polymerase chain reaction.
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