Theileriosis is an important haemoparasitic disease of goats which causes serious economic losses to farmers. There is a paucity of information on the clinico-haemato-biochemical aspects of caprine theileriosis in Kerala. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the haemato-biochemical alterations associated with clinical cases of caprine theileriosis in twenty five smear positive goats in Thrissur district, Kerala. Major clinical signs observed were anaemia, fever, lymphnode enlargement, anorexia, respiratory distress. Haemato-biochemical analysis revealed macrocytic hypochromic anaemia with low Hb, Volume of Packed Red Cells (VPRC), platelet, Total Erythrocyte Count (TEC) and hyperproteinaemia with hyperglobulinaemia in the affected goats.

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India is endemic to bovine brucellosis, and there is a high potential for transmission of disease from ruminants to dogs. A total of 18 bitches belonging to five different breeds at different stage of abortion (30 days to 65 days of gestation) were selected for this study. Majority of them were showing abortion (88.89 per cent) at 45 to 65 days of the gestation. Microscopic examination of Stamp stained smear obtained from the aborted foetal stomach contents revealed red coccobacillary organisms suggestive of Brucella spp.in three cases. RBPT on paired sera samples on day of presentation and three weeks after abortion showed agglutination within four minutes in five out of 18 female dogs. DNA extracted from the aborted tissues of a RBPT positive Labrador dog yielded amplicons of 193 base pair specific for Brucella spp. on PCR. The results obtained from this study stress the need for screening dogs for canine brucellosis in the current brucellosis surveillance and control programmes.

Coagulatory abnormalities are common in renal dysfunction in humans. The studies on coagulatory abnormalities in renal failure in dogs are limited. The present paper deals with coagulation profile in acute and chronic kidney disease in dogs. The haemostatic defects observed in acute renal dysfunction included thrombocytopaenia, prolonged capillary bleeding time (CBT), elevated D-Dimer and hypoantithrombinemia which indicated a hypercoagulable state. Prolongation of prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), elevated D-Dimer concentration and hypoantithrombinemia in chronic kidney disease indicated the presence of hypocoagulable state