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ExperimentalEperythrozoon ovisinfection of sheep
- Source :
- New Zealand Veterinary Journal. 21:160-166
- Publication Year :
- 1973
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 1973.
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Abstract
- Extract Eperythrozoon ovis is an epi-erythrocytic sheep parasite of uncertain classification with a world-wide distribution (Sutton, 1970), but whether eperythrozoonosis is a disease of economic importance remains unresolved. In Scotland, Foggie and Nisbet (1964), found that experimentally E. ovis caused a clinical anaemia, occasionally with jaundice, but there was no significant difference in weight gain between infected and control sheep. Similar observations in naturally infected sheep were recorded in Norway by Overas (1969), and in Australia by Harbutt (1969b), Other Australian authors have found infection by this parasite; associated with outbreaks of ill-thrift in lambs (Sheriff et al., 1966) and severe anaemia with some mortality (Littlejohns, 1960; Maxwell, 1969; Campbell et al., 1971). Although the presence of strains of different pathogenicity has been suggested (Foggie and Nisbet, 1964, 1966; Harbutt, 1969a), other factors influencing the disease should also be considered (Littlejohns...
- Subjects :
- Male
Anemia, Hemolytic
Veterinary medicine
Sheep
General Veterinary
biology
Body Weight
Significant difference
Sheep Diseases
Outbreak
General Medicine
Jaundice
biology.organism_classification
Pathogenicity
Mycoplasma
Eperythrozoon ovis
medicine
Animals
Parasite hosting
medicine.symptom
Ovis
Severe anaemia
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 11760710 and 00480169
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- New Zealand Veterinary Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7057dba52a0691aaade6c8a279b1531f