Abstract
In the Parish of Ayora, Santo Domingo N◦ 1 community, a serological diagnosis for the detection of bovine leukosis was carried out using the ELISA test. The objectives of the research were to estimate the prevalence of the disease and its relationship with risk factors, to determine the number of positive cases that entered the Cayambe Canton's cattle farm through postmortem clinicopathological examination. According to epidemiological measures, a prevalence of 5.6% of a total of 250 samples was determined. The probability of contagion in the Relative Risk of the disease is 16.86 times higher in the exposed group and 0.059 times lower in the non-exposed. Likewise, inadequate management practices were identified in the following areas: sanitary, reproductive, feeding and coexistence with positive animals and replacements coming from fairs and farms that do not have sanitary certificates. In this way, postmortem anatomopathological lesions were diagnosed in slaughtered animals, showing apparent clinical signs of the disease in several organs, which corresponds to a prevalence of 46.38%, out of a total of 511 cattle, thus confirming the presence of bovine leukosis in dairy herds in the community of Santo Domingo N◦ 1, and anatomopathological lesions in animals slaughtered in the slaughterhouse.
Translated title of the contribution | Prevalence of Bovine Leukosis in the Santo Domingo N°1 Community, Cayambe-Ecuador 2012 |
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Original language | Spanish (Ecuador) |
Pages (from-to) | 33-39 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | La Granja |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 22 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Dec 2015 |
Keywords
- Bovine leukosis
- Cayambe
- Lymph
- Lymphocytes
- Prevalence
- Retrovirus
CACES Knowledge Areas
- 118A Agricultural and livestock production