Prevalent Foot Disorders In Relation To Reproductive Performance In Cattle

Faculty Veterinary Medicine Year: 2013
Type of Publication: Theses Pages: 204
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BibID 11680855
Keywords : Veterinary Surgery    
Abstract:
The present study was set up to assess the prevalence of foot dIsorders In five dairy-cow farms in and around Sharki provincs s with thereproductive performance of lame animalsAnimals were evaluated using locomotion scoring clinical and oistopathological examination. Nine hundred and forty eight animals out of 2600 were diagnosed with different foot disorders. The prevalence of foot disorders was recorded with regard to the affsconng. An attempt for the surgical management of diagnosed footdisorders and their posttreatment follow-up was adopted, in additionto the relationship between different foot disorders and locomotionscoring with reproductive performance of affected animals.Foot disorders represented an overall prevalence of 36.46 %where those of the hind feet represented 28.54 % and the fore feet9.08 %. Foot disorders were more prevalent in winter (20.16 %)than in summer (16.32 %). Moreover, most of foot disorders were• One hundred sample of milk products including hard cheese and kareish (50 of each).• One hundred sample of meat products including luncheon and sausage (50 of each).Out of 200 examined samples of milk and meat products, S.aureus was detected in 40% and 30% of milk and meat products samples, respectively. While C.perfringens was detected in 18% and 23% of milk and meat products samples, respectively.In case of milk products samples, S. aureus was isolated from hard cheese and kareish samples with percentage of 52% and 28%, respectively, while C.perfringens was isolated from hard cheese and kareish cheese samples with percentage of 16% and 20%, respecIn case of meat products samples, S. aureus could be isolated from luncheon and sausage samples with percentage of 24% and 36% respectively, while C.perfringens was isolated from luncheon and sausage samples with percentage of 22% and 24%, respectively.All S. aureus isolates were Gram positive cocci arranged in clusters, they were catalase and coagulase producer, growth occurred on Baird Parker medium, nutrient agar, blood agar and mannitol salt agar. All isolates fermented glucose anerobically.The recorded C. perfringens isolates were subjected to the following biochemical tests: catalase, sugar fermentation, gelatin liquefaction, litmus milk and indole tests. The obtained results showed that C. perfringens is catalase negative, glucose, maltosMoreover, Nagler`s test was applied on the recovered C. perfringens isolates to detect the action of alpha toxin (lecithinase) on lecithin of egg yolk onto enriched egg yolk agar medium. The results showed pearly opalescence zones surround the colonies whReversed passive latex agglutination technique (RPLA) was applied on S. aureus isolates to detect the presence of staphylococcal enterotoxins A, B, C and D.In case of S. aureus isolates obtained from milk products, it was found that only 13 (32.5%) from 40 S. aureus isolates were enterotoxigenic as, 9 stated to produce enterotoxin (A) (22.5%) and 3 produced enterotoxin (B) (7.5%) and production of enterotoxiIn case of S. aureus isolates obtained from meat products, it was found that only 17 (56.67%) 30 S. aureus isolates were enterotoxigenic as, 8 stated to enterotoxin (D) (26.67%) which was the highest, then 6 produced enterotoxin (A) (20%) and production oC. perfringens isolates recovered from milk and meat products were biologically examined for their toxicity by I/V inoculation in Swiss mice (3 animals / isolate).The toxicity of C. perfringens isolated from hard cheese and kareish cheese were 75% (6) and 70% (7), respectively while from luncheon and sausage were 63.64% (7) and 66.67% (8), respectively.All twenty eight toxigenic C. perfringens isolates from milk and meat products were type A by dermonecrotic reactions, toxin antitoxin neutralization tests (on the skin of albino guinea pigs).Mice injected with MLD (80/ml) of C. perfringens alpha toxin exhibited significant decrease in phagocytic percentage and index at 3 and 6 days post injection compared with control. Also there was significant decrease in serum lysozyme activity and nitric In the present study, Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been proved to be a reliable, sensitive and specific protocol for detection of the genes encoding staphylococcal enterotoxins (A to E), also C. perfringens alpha exotoxin as well as enterotoxin as Total number of 10 isolates (5 isolates from milk products and 5 isolates from meat products) tested by using RPLA and the results of 
   
     
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