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Volume 22 (10):974-985, 2018.
Lesions
and bacteria isolated from livers of 3069 apparently normal sheep at slaughter.
Lubna Khalid Abdul-Rahman, Zaid Salah
Hussein.
College of Veterinary
Medicine, University of Baghdad. Part of a Master of Science thesis
ABSTRACT
Abdul-Rahman LK, Salah Hussein Z., Lesions and
bacteria isolated from livers of 3069 apparently normal sheep at slaughter, Onl J Vet Res., 22
(10):974-985, 2018. Authors report incidence of liver lesions
detected in 3069 apparently healthy sheep over 8 months at abbatoirs
in Iraq. We found abscesses in 1.35%, multi-necrotic foci in 0.94%, hydatid cysts in 0.71%, congestion in 0.13% and fatty change
in 0.1%. Abscesses were more frequent (P < 0.01) than fatty change. Lesions were subjected to bacterial isolation
and identification tests (Quinn et al. (2004). Bacteria (n=156) isolated
were Staphylococcus aureus in 23.1%,
E.coli 13.46%, Pseudomonas auroginosa 10.3%, Burkholderia
cepacia 6.4%,
Klebsiella pneumonia and Listeria grayi ~4.5%, Proteus vulgaris,
Salmonella paratyphi and Staphylococcus klosii ~3.8%,
Streptococcus pyogenes, Pseudomonas putrida and
Enterobacter cloacae ~3.2%,
Enterococcus fecalis, Proteus pennri, Aeromonos enchelia and Streptococcus pneumonia ~2.6%, Staphylococcus gallinarium and
Corynebacterium pseudotuberclosis ~1.9%,
Pseudomonas fluorescens ~1.3%, Shigella flexneri and Stenotrophomonas multiphilia ~0.64%.
We isolated Staphylococcus aureus from
67% abscesses and 25% of necrotic foci, and E.
coli, from 80.9% of hydatid cysts. Condemned livers were 1.35%, but
incidence of abnormalities was low, probably due to the grazing nature of sheep
in Iraq.
Keywords: liver diseases, sheep, incidence, Bacterial isolates, AL-Fallujah.
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