List of infectious sheep and goat diseases
Sheep and goats are both small ruminants with cosmopolitan distributions due to their being kept historically and in modern times as grazers both individually and in herds in return for their production of milk, wool, and meat.[1] As such, the diseases of these animals are of great economic importance to humans.
Prion diseases[]
Viral diseases[]
Diseases caused by viruses include:
- Akabane virus infection
- bluetongue disease
- border disease (hairy shaker disease)
- Cache Valley virus infection
- caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE)
- enzootic nasal adenocarcinoma
- foot-and-mouth disease
- mastitis
- Nairobi sheep disease orthonairovirus (NSDV) infection
- orf, also known as contagious ecthyma, contagious pustular dermatitis, infectious labial dermatitis, thistle disease, sore mouth, or scabby mouth
- ovine encephalomyelitis (louping ill)
- ovine progressive pneumonia (OPP)
- ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma
- ovine rinderpest, also known as peste des petits ruminants (PPR)
- Rift Valley fever
- Schmallenberg virus infection
- ulcerative dermatosis
- variola caprina (goatpox)
- variola ovina (sheeppox)
- Wesselsbron virus infection
Bacterial diseases[]
Diseases caused by bacteria include:
- anaplasmosis
- blackleg
- braxy
- brucellosis
- caseous lymphadenitis
- chlamydiosis, also known as enzootic abortion of ewes (EAE)
- contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
- dermatophilosis, also known as cutaneous streptothricosis, rainscald, rain rot, lumpy wool, or strawberry footrot
- ehrlichiosis
- enterotoxemia
- , also known as sheath rot, pizzle rot, or enzootic balanoposthitis
- foot rot
- infectious necrotic hepatitis
- leptospirosis
- listeriosis
- mastitis
- mycoplasmosis
- paratuberculosis (Johne's disease)
- pasteurellosis
- Q fever
- salmonellosis
- tularemia
- , also known as necrotic balanoposthitis/vulvitis, pizzle disease, knobrot, or peestersiekte
- vibriosis.
Fungal diseases[]
Diseases caused by funguses include
Parasitic diseases[]
Parasites causing disease in sheep and goats include diseases caused by protozoa, helminths, tapeworms and roundworms.
Protozoa[]
- Babesia species
- Cryptosporidium parvum
- Eimeria species
- Giardia intestinalis
- Neospora caninum
- Sarcocystis species
- Theileria lestoquardi (hirsi)[2]
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Trypanosoma species
Helminths[]
Flatworms[]
Tapeworms[]
- Echinococcus granulosus
- Moniezia species
- Taenia ovis
- Taenia hydatigena
Roundworms[]
- Chabertia ovina
- Dictyocaulus filaria
- Elaeophora schneideri
- Haemonchus contortus
- Cooperia species
- Muellerius capillaris
- Nematodirus species
- Neostrongylus linearis
- Oesophagostomum species
- parasitic bronchitis, also known as "hoose"
- Protostrongylus refescens
- Teladorsagia circumcincta
- Trichostrongylus species
- Trichuris ovis
Arachnids and insects[]
Ticks[]
- Amblyomma species
- Boophilus species
- Dermacentor species
- Haemaphysalis species
- Hyalomma species
- Ixodes species
- Rhipicephalus species
Mites (mange)[]
- Chorioptes bovis
- Demodex ovis
- Demodex caprae
- Psorobia ovis[3]
- Psoroptes ovis
- Sarcoptes scabiei var. caprae
- Sarcoptes scabiei var. ovis
Lice[]
- chewing lice[4]
- (goats)
- (goats)
- (goats)
- (sheep)
- sucking lice[4]
- (sheep and goats)
- (sheep)
- (sheep)
- (goats)
Flies[]
- mosquitoes
- myiasis
- fly strike
- Oestrus ovis (sheep bot fly)
- sheep ked (Melophagus ovinus)
References[]
- ^ Pugh, D. G. (2002). Sheep and Goat Medicine. Philadelphia: Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-9052-1.
- ^ Kirvar, E; Ilhan, T; Katzer, F; Wilkie, G; Hooshmand-Rad, P; Brown, D (29 June 1998). "Detection of Theileria lestoquardi (hirci) in ticks, sheep, and goats using the polymerase chain reaction". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 849: 52–62. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11033.x. PMID 9668449.
- ^ "Mange in Sheep and Goats". The Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ^ a b "Lice in Sheep and Goats". The Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
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