CAMEL DISEASES
The camel remains an integral parts of the culture and agriculture of many countries specially inAfricaand Arab world. Beside it considered as a source of meat and wool production, it is also a hardly animal well adapted to living in a desert environment, so it still used in military services.
The world population of camel is around 15 million, about 85000 of them were found inEgypt.
Camel diseases:
(A) Bacterial diseases:
(1) Anthrax.
(2) Brucellosis.
(3) Tubercullosis (T. B.).
(4) Salmonellosis.
(5) Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (H. S.).
(6) Camel Plague.
(7) Contagious skin necrosis.
(8) Paratuberculosis (Jhone's disease).
(9) Leptospirosis.
(10) Listeriosis.
(11) Caseous lymphadenitis.
(12) Clostridial diseases.
(a) Tetanus.
(b) Black quarter.
(c) Infectious enterotoxaemia .
(13) Actinomycosis.
(14) Streptococcal abortion.
(15) Contagious pleuropneumonia.
(B) Fungal disease:
*Ringworm.
(C) Viral diseases:
(1) Camel pox.
(2) Rabies.
(3) Rinderpest.
(4) Foot and mouth disease (F.M.D.).
(5) African horse sickness (A.H.S.).
(6) Rift valley fever.
(7) Parainfluenza-3.
(8) Infection bovine Rhinotracheitis.
(9) Bovine virus diarrhea.
10) Blue tongue.
(11) Mucosal Disease.
Other viruses isolated from tick attached other viruses isolated from tick attached to camel skin:
(a) Wanorui virus. (b) Thogata virus.
(c) Dhori virus. (d) Quarnfie virus.
(e) Kadam virus.
(D) Protozoal Diseases:
(1) Trypanosomiasis.
(2) Leishmaniasis.
(3) Theileria Camelensis.
(4) Anaplasmosis.
(5) Blantiduim.
(6) Coccidiosis:
(a) Gut dowelling coccidia:
* Isospora species. * Eimeria species.
(b) Tissue cyst forming coccidiosis:
*Sarcocystosis * Toxoplasmosis
(E) Helminthes Parasites:
(1) Gastrointestinal nematodes.
(2) Extra intestinal nematodes.
*Onchocerciasis.
*Dipetalonema evansi.
*Thelaziasis.
*Hydatidiosis.
(3) Extra intestinal cestodes.
*Cysticercus ovis.
*Coenurus cerebralis.
(F) Ectoparasites:
(1) Mange (Mites).
(2) Tick:
(a) One host tick (Boophilus spp.)
(b) Two host tick (Hyalomma spp.)
(c) Three host tick (Amblyema spp.)
(3) Myiasis producing flies.
(a) Wohlfahrtia magnifica.
(b) Wohlfahrtia nuba.
(4) Biting flies:
(a) House flies (Tabanus) .
(b) Stable flies (Stomoxys).
(c) Lyperosia (horn fly).
(d) House flies. (Musca domestica).
(e) Camel flies (Hippobosca camelina).
(f) Mosquitoes & Culicoides.
(g) Fleas.
(h) Lices
(e) Camel flies (Hippobosca camelina).
(f) Mosquitoes & Culicoides.
(g) Fleas.
(h) Lices
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