Epidemiological study on infectious bovine rhinotracheitis in cattle

Background: The study was conducted on 5 farms belong to the General organisation of Cattle (GOC) in Syria for epidemiological & Sero investigation of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR). Methods: Data was collected from individual farm included animal characteristics and farm specifications. Random blood samples were colleced from individual animal from the farms study. ELISA test was used to test all samples to detect positive antibodies LPEC model Program was used to estimate the economic losses of the disease. Results: The sero prevalence of the disease was ranged between 10-20 percent in the study farms. It was carried out an quantitative epidemiological and economic study to evaluation the epidemiology of the disease and econmic losses caused by the disease. It was confirmed that there were strength significant association between the occurrence of the disease and advance ages of animals and increased the size of herd in individual farms. The economic losses resulted of the occurrence of the disease were estimated as indiviudual level for a cow and gemerally on the farm level.The sero prevalence of the disease was ranged between 10-20 percent in the study farms. It was carried out an quantitative epidemiological and economic study to evaluation the epidemiology of the disease and econmic losses caused by the disease. It was confirmed that there were strength significant association between the occurrence of the disease and advance ages of animals and increased the size of herd in individual farms. The economic losses resulted of the occurrence of the disease were estimated as indiviudual level for a cow and gemerally on the farm level. Conclusion: The study was conculded that there was an increase in the seroprevalence in dvance ages in all regions study, this was because there was no vaccination program in all regions study. Biosecurity procedures should be taken in consideration in order to decrease the disease occurrence. The economic losses resulted from the disease reached to 4000 US$ at the farm level and about 100,000 US$ at the GOC level. Control startegies should be carried out in order to prevent the high prevelance level of the diseae Abstracts for SupplementInternational Journal of Infectious DiseasesVol. 14Preview Full-Text PDF Open Archive