List of infectious sheep and goat diseases
Ewe with bare patches on rear end from scraping
Sheep and goats are both small ruminants with cosmopolitan distributions due to their being kept historically and in modern times as grazers and browsers, both individually and in herds, in return for their production of milk, wool, mohair, and meat.[1] As such, the diseases of these animals are of great economic importance to humans.
Bluetongue virus particle
- Viruses: foot-and-mouth disease, bluetongue disease, maedi-visna, orf, tick-borne encephalomyelitis, peste-des-petits-ruminants virus, sheeppox and goatpox
- Bacteria: blackleg, foot rot, caprine pleuropneumonia, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, chlamydiosis, Johne's disease, listeriosis, fleece rot
A sheep showing clinical symptoms of facial eczema
- Parasites:
- protozoa: Trypanosoma spp., Babesia spp., Theileria hirci, Anaplasma ovis, Eimeria spp., Toxoplasma gondii, Giardia intestinalis, Sarcocystis spp., Cryptosporidium parvum, Ehrlichia ovina
E. granulosus life cycle
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- helminths:
- flatworms: Fasciola hepatica, Fasciola gigantica, Fascioloides magna, Dicrocoelium dendriticum, Schistosoma bovis
- tapeworms: Echinococcus granulosus, Taenia ovis, Taenia hydatigena, Moniezia spp.
- roundworms: (including Hoose (disease)) Elaeophora schneideri, Haemonchus contortus, Trichostrongylus spp., Teladorsagia spp., Cooperia spp., Nematodirus spp., Dictyocaulus filaria, Protostrongylus refescens, Muellerius capillaris, Oesophagostomum spp., Neostrongylus linearis, Chabertia ovina, Trichuris ovis
- arachnids and insects:
- ticks: Ixodes spp., Amblyomma spp., Boophilus spp., Dermacentor spp., Haemphysalis spp., Hyalomma spp., Rhipicephalus spp.
- mites: Psoroptes ovis, Sarcoptes ovis, Chorioptes ovis, Demodex ovis, Demodex caprae
- lice: Lepikentron ovis, Bovicola caprae, Linognathus ovillus, Linognathus stenopsis
- Diptera: Anopheles spp., Culex, Aedes spp., Lucilia spp., Chrysomya spp., Oestrus ovis, Myiasis
- helminths:
Typical arched back stance of lamb Nutritional muscular dystrophy, a nutrional deficiency disease
References
- ^ Pugh, D. G. (2002). Sheep and Goat Medicine. Philadelphia: Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-9052-1.
