Seroprevalence of Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia in Goats from Selected Endemic Areas of Sindh
Seroprevalence of Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia in Goats from Selected Endemic Areas of Sindh
Ghulam Mustafa Solangi4, Zaheer Ahmed Nizamani1*, Mansoor Tariq1, Zubair Ahmed Leghari2, Asghar Ali Kamboh3, Barirah Rehman Talpur1
ABSTRACT
Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCPP) is a serious and economically important respiratory disease which causes significant losses in goat population throughout Asia, Middle East, Europe and Africa. In order to investigate the seroprevalence of CCPP in goat population of Sindh province, a total of 800 serum samples from four districts of Sindh (Thatta, Tharparkar, Jamshoro and Larkana) representing four agro-ecological zones of Sindh were examined by using c-ELISA. The overall seroprevalence of CCPP in goat population was found to be 18.0%. The prevalence of CCPP varied significantly (p<0.001) in the four districts. It was found highest in Tharparkar (24.5%) followed by Larkana (19.0%) Jamshoro (15.5%) and Thatta (13.0%). Sex-wise seroprevalence of CCPP in goats showed significantly higher (p<0.001) occurrence in female goats (18.4%) than male goats (15.0%). Age wise investigation exhibited a higher (p<0.001) seroprevalence of CCPP in goats older than 2 years of age (23.7%) than the goats 1-2 years of age (10.0%) and was lowest in goats younger than 1 year of age (8.0%). Breed-wise results showed higher (p<0.001) seroprevalence of CCPP in Tapri goat breed (30.0%) than the Teddy (24.0%) and Pateri (11.0%) while it was lowest in Kamori goat breed (7.0%). These results concluded that CCPP is prevalent in the study area thus proper control strategies should be adopted to prevent economic losses.
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