Prevalence of uterine infection in relation to certain haematological and biochemical changes of blood serum in dairy cows

Abstract

In the present study, blood samples of 79 cows with different uterine infections (pyometra, endometritis, cervicitis and abortion) and 41 normal cows of non-descripts and crossbreds were collected to study the prevalence of uterine infection in relation to haematological as well as biochemical changes in blood serum. In uterine infections, major infection remained endometritis which was recorded as highest (34.16%) followed by pyometra (18.33%), cervicitis (10.00%) and abortion (3.33%). Haematological study revealed a significant decrease in haemoglobin and total erythrocyte count while a significant increase in total leukocyte count in animals with uterine infection as compared to the control group. Biochemical study revealed that there was a severe decrease in serum glucose and serum cholesterol level in uterine infected cows in comparison to healthy cows. It was concluded that infection in the body, nature of the causative agents, and resistance of animal and localization of inflammatory response might be possible causes of lower biochemical parameters and haematological parameters except total leukocyte count in uterine infected cows.

Comparison of hematological and biochemical profile between Podolian grey steppe and Holstein cows

“…On the other hand, besides hematological parameters, biochemical blood status in a range of normal physiological limits reflects a good health status and is highly correlated with milk production (Obućinski, Soleša, et al, 2019). Over the years biochemical and hematological blood profile of cowshasinvestigated the age-related changes and comparison with blood composition in adults (Mohri et al, 2007), location-related changes (Hagawane et al, 2009), effects of parity, stage of lactation, and season of production (Cozzi et al, 2011), mineral dietary supplementation (Sobhanirad and Naserian, 2012), influence dependent on the management system (Obućinski, Soleša, et al, 2019;Radkowska & Herbut, 2014), changes during drying-off and the beginning of lactation (Bertulat et al, 2015), the prevalence of uterine infection (Sarkar et al, 2016), improvement of the biochemical and metabolic biomarkers in response to the therapeutic management in ketotic dairy cows (Biswal et al, 2017)milk and blood of ketotic dairy cows in and around Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, before and after treatment. Thirty of 100 ketotic cows identified from a population of 1014 cows were equally divided into three groups of 10 animals each while group IV selected from the population under investigation was treated as control.…”