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Research
1.
Clinical, epidemiological and therapeutic studies on
bovine papillomatosis in northern oases, Egypt in
2008 -
Fayez Awadalla Salib, Haithm Ali Farghali
Vet World. 2011; 4(2): 53-59
doi:
10.5455/vetworld.2011.53-59
Abstract
Bovine papillomatosis is a viral disease of cattle
characterized clinically by development of multiple
benign tumours termed warts. The diagnosis of bovine
papillomatosis was confirmed by clinical and
pathological examinations of the warts. The
prevalence of bovine papillomatosis in Northern
Oases was recorded as 4.86%. The prevalence was
higher in the females (2.99%) than males (1.87%).The
prevalence was the highest in cattle less than one
year old (2.99%). The infected cattle were examined
visually for detection of external parasites and
faecal samples were examined for detection of
internal parasites. Infestation with ticks was
observed in 10 of the 13 confirmed wart infected
animals, while fasciola and parasitic
gastroenteritis (PGE) nematode eggs were
demonstrated and quantified in 4 and 5 infected
bovids respectively. The statistical correlation
between the number of warts and Fasciola eggs, and
number of parasitic gastroenteritis (PGE) nematode
eggs, was 0.6 and 0.89 accordingly. Two therapeutic
regimes were evaluated, regimen-I and regimen-II.
All cattle treated were completely recovered in days
post treatment 15 to 115. We concluded that
treatment regimen-I was better than regimen-II when
taking into consideration the mean days lapsed for
healing and regression of warts of 42 days compared
to 83 days for regimen-II.
Key words: Cattle,
Wart, Epidemiology, Parasite, Therapy, Egypt.
