Caprine Arthritis-Encephalitis control in an endemically contaminated commercial goat farm

Authors

  • Anee Valéria Mendonça Stachissini Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Higiene Veterinária e Saúde Pública, Botucatu, SP
  • José Rafael Modolo Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Higiene Veterinária e Saúde Pública, Botucatu, SP
  • Roberto Soares de Castro Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, Recife, PE
  • Barbára Lima Simioni Leite Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Higiene Veterinária e Saúde Pública, Botucatu, SP
  • João Pessoa Araújo Júnior Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Biociências, Botucatu, SP
  • Carlos Roberto Padovani Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Biociências, Botucatu, SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1678-4456.bjvras.2007.26659

Keywords:

Caprine, Lentiviruses, Caprine arthritis-encephalitis, Control

Abstract

CAE is caused by a lentivirus. The animals are mainly infected when taking contaminated colostrums and/or milk. This study proposed a CAE control strategy without sacrificing contaminated mothers. Thirty-nine female kids, born to CAE seropositive mothers were isolated from their mothers at birth and fed heat-treated colostrum and pasteurized milk from seronegative goats up to two months of age. All kids were submitted to three-monthly serological tests from birth to 12 months; seropositives were segregated from the herd. The control group consisted of 12 kids born to seropositive mothers that remained with their mothers. Diagnosis was the same, but seropositve animals were not segregated. At the end of 12 months, 34 (87%) animals from the experimental group remained seronegative with 76% to 98% confidence limits; in control group animals, the accumulated negativity rate was 17%, with 0% and 38% confidence limits. These results show that the proposed plan is viable to assure disease control in contaminated herds and that without it contamination can pass to animals born to infected goats.

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Published

2007-02-01

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How to Cite

Caprine Arthritis-Encephalitis control in an endemically contaminated commercial goat farm. (2007). Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science, 44(1), 40-43. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1678-4456.bjvras.2007.26659