Retrospective study of farm animal diseases presented to Atpara Upazila veterinary hospital, Netrakona, Bangladesh

Abstract

Background: The field veterinary hospital records serve as indispensable sources of valuable information on various farm animal diseases of the respective areas. The current retrospective study was conducted to determine the distribution of clinical diseases of farm animals presented to Atpara Upazila veterinary hospital from January 2007 to December 2010. Methods: Animal, disease and related data from the official register books were stored using the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program 2010. Descriptive statistics were performed and expressed as the percentage of disease and conditions with a 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: Of the total 6825 clinical cases recorded from the patient register, cattle, goats and sheep were presented at 87.15%, 12.75% and 0.1%, respectively. The vast majority cases were medicinal (91%) followed by gyneco-obstetrical (6%) and surgical (2%) cases. According to etio-pathological nature, the most commonly observed disease categories were parasitic (20.35%), fever (4.67%), dermatitis (6.65%), metabolic and nutritional deficiency disorders (4.59%), anorexia (2.83%), diarrhea (2.52%), arthritis (1.47%), bloat (1.32%), pneumonia (1.29%), and FMD (1.27%). A higher proportion of female cattle and goats were presented compared to that of the males. Similarly, more adult animals were presented as clinical cases than young animals. Conclusions: Among most of the clinical cases in the study area, parasitic diseases were commonly prevalent irrespective of season and host. Appropriate strategic measures should be adopted to control such infection in the study area to minimize farm production loss.

Epidemiology of Bovine Diseases in Tangail District of Bangladesh

“…There were 92.56% medicinal cases, 4.37% gyneco-obstetrical cases, and 3.07% surgical cases among cattle. This observation supports the earlier reports of Samad (2001), Rahman et al (2012), Karim et al (2014), andMajumder et al (2022). This study found that the prevalence of parasitic diseases (30.16%), infectious diseases (21.84%), general systemic states (20.12%) and digestive disorders (18.55%) were significantly higher (P<0.001) among the ten disease categories, which is consistent with the findings of Alam et al ( 2018 This study found 30.16% of cattle with parasitic diseases, which is comparable to earlier studies that found 30.64%-33.86% of cattle with parasitic diseases (Badruzzaman et al, 2015;Juli et al, 2015;Sarker et al, 2015;Meher et al, 2021).…”

“…The low occurrence of clinical diseases in calves is attributable to acquired maternal immunity as well as the fact that they do not come into direct contact with contaminated feed. Male cattle (51.78%) were significantly (P < 0.05) more susceptible to diseases than females, which corresponds to the findings of and Meher et al (2021), but differs from the findings of others (Lucky et al, 2016;Rahman et al, 2017;Alam et al, 2018;Majumder et al, 2022). Surgical cases were insignificantly higher in male cattle, which is consistent with the findings of Hossain et al (2016) but contradictory to the findings of Mannan et al (2009).…”

“…Clinical case records with diverse infection levels have been reported from different regions of Bangladesh (Ali et al, 2011;Kabir et al, 2011;Pallab et al, 2012;Rahman et al, 2012Rahman et al, , 2017Rahman et al, , 2020Sarker et al, 2013;Parvez et al, 2014;Karim et al, 2014;Sarker et al, 2015;Siddiki et al, 2015;Badruzzaman et al, 2015;Islam et al, 2015aIslam et al, , b, 2019Juli et al, 2015;Hossain et al, 2016;Lucky et al, 2016;Khan et al, 2017;Mohammed et al, 2017;Talukder et al, 2018;Alam et al, 2018;Sen et al, 2018;Mostari et al, 2020;Meher et al, 2021;Biswas et al, 2021;Majumder et al, 2022). However, such data is scarce in Bangladesh's Tangail area.…”