doi: www.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2020.80-91
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Article history: Received: 26-07-2019, Accepted: 22-11-2019, Published online: 11-01-2020
Corresponding author: Kuralayanapalya P. Suresh
E-mail: sureshkp97@gmail.com
Citation: Barman NN, Patil SS, Kurli R, Deka P, Bora DP, Deka G, Ranjitha KM, Shivaranjini C, Roy P, Suresh KP (2020) Meta-analysis of the prevalence of livestock diseases in North Eastern region of India, Veterinary World, 13(1): 80-91.Aim: The study aimed to determine the overall prevalence of livestock diseases in North Eastern Region (NER) of India, through a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data.
Materials and Methods: The articles used for the study were retrieved from PubMed, J-Gate Plus, Indian Journals, and Google scholar, R open-source scripting software 3.4.3. Metafor, Meta. The Chi-square test was conducted to assess for the heterogeneity, forest plot (confidence interval [CI] plot) is a method utilized to present the results of meta-analysis, displaying effect estimate and their CIs for each study were used for searching and retrieval of livestock diseases prevalence data in India using a search strategy combining keywords and related database-specific subject terms from 2008 to 2017 in English only.
Results: The prevalence of various livestock diseases are foot-and-mouth disease (21%), bluetongue (28%), brucellosis in bovine (17%), brucellosis in caprine (2%), brucellosis in porcine (18%), brucellosis in sheep and goat (3%), babesiosis (6%), theileriosis (26%), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (1%), porcine cysticercosis (6%), classical swine fever (31%), Porcine circovirus (43%), and Peste des petits ruminants (15%). This information helps policymakers to take appropriate measures to reduce the disease burden.
Conclusion: This study indicates that the overall prevalence of various livestock diseases in NER of India.
Keywords: babesiosis, brucellosis, classical swine fever, foot-and-mouth disease, forest plot, livestock, meta-analysis, North Eastern regions, Peste des petits ruminants, Porcine circovirus, porcine cysticercosis, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, prevalence, seroprevalence, theileriosis.