Caseous lymphadenitis of sheep and goats in Kenya

dc.contributor.author	Kuria, J K N
dc.contributor.author	Ngatia, T A
dc.date.accessioned	2013-04-18T07:45:21Z
dc.date.issued	1990
dc.identifier.citation	JournalBulletin of Animal Health and Production in Africa 1990 Vol. 38 No. 1 pp. 15-18	en
dc.identifier.issn	0378-9721
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16331
dc.description	Journal article	en
dc.description.abstract	In a survey of caseous lymphadenitis in local sheep and goats in Kenya, 54 of 757 goats (7.13%) and 6 of 378 sheep (1.6%) were found to have one or more abscesses. Abscessation was commonest in the prescapular (68.25%) followed by the precrural (14.28%) lymph nodes. Six abscesses were located subcutaneously close to uninvolved superficial lymph nodes. Histopathology of the abscesses showed granulomatous inflammation. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis was isolated from 79.36% of the abscesses in pure or mixed cultures. From 11.1% of the abscesses other microorganisms (Bacillus, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, coliforms, Pseudomonas) while from 9.52% no bacteria were isolated.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Caseous lymphadenitis	en
dc.subject	Sheep and goats	en
dc.subject	Kenya	en
dc.title	Caseous lymphadenitis of sheep and goats in Kenya	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Nairobi	en