Back to Search
Start Over
The influence of energy intake on the pathophysiology of Trypanosoma congolense infection in Scottish blackface sheep.
- Source :
-
Veterinary parasitology [Vet Parasitol] 1995 Oct; Vol. 59 (3-4), pp. 207-18. - Publication Year :
- 1995
-
Abstract
- The intensity of parasitaemia, degree of anaemia, live body weight gains and blood biochemical changes were measured in two groups of Scottish Blackface sheep infected experimentally with Trypanosoma congolense and allowed either a high (9.9 MJ metabolisable energy (ME) day-1) or a low (6.1 MJ ME day-1) energy intake. It was observed that infected animals on the low energy intake had a longer mean prepatent period, but following patency they developed more severe anaemia and greater growth retardation than those on the high energy intake. Both infected groups exhibited significant reductions in serum total lipids, phospholipids, plasma cholesterol and albumin. However, these changes were more severe in the animals on the low energy intake than in those on the high energy intake. It was concluded that adequate energy nutrition enhances the ability of infected animals to withstand the adverse effects of infection, by promoting body weight gains and moderating the severity of the pathophysiological changes associated with ovine trypanosomosis.
- Subjects :
- Anemia etiology
Anemia veterinary
Animals
Blood Proteins metabolism
Cholesterol blood
Fatty Acids, Nonesterified blood
Growth
Hemoglobins metabolism
Male
Orchiectomy
Phospholipids blood
Serum Albumin metabolism
Sheep
Time Factors
Triglycerides blood
Trypanosomiasis, African blood
Trypanosomiasis, African physiopathology
Urea blood
Energy Intake
Sheep Diseases
Trypanosoma congolense
Trypanosomiasis, African veterinary
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0304-4017
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 3-4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Veterinary parasitology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8533279
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4017(94)00748-2