A preliminary passive surveillance of clinical diseases of cart pulling camels in Faisalabad metropolis (Pakistan)

Prev Vet Med. 2006 Oct 17;76(3-4):273-9. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2006.05.006. Epub 2006 Jun 19.

Abstract

We identified clinical disorders of all 200 city-dwelling cart pulling male camels attending the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan during a 7-year period (1993-1999). Data were collected prospectively on a predesigned form and collated. Diagnoses of different diseases/disorders were based on clinical examination supplemented with relevant laboratory tests. A total of 463 entries of 34 different clinical diseases/disorders were recorded. Sarcoptic mange (35% of 200 camels) followed by anhidrosis (23%) and trypanosomosis (19%) were the three most frequently encountered disorders. The body system most often involved was the integument (31%) followed by gastrointestinal (21%), locomotory (12%), thermoregulatory (6%), blood (6%), urogenital (6%), lymphatic (3%), nervous (3%), respiratory (3%) and ocular (3%).

MeSH terms

  • Animal Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Animals
  • Camelus*
  • Hypohidrosis / epidemiology
  • Hypohidrosis / veterinary
  • Male
  • Pakistan / epidemiology
  • Prospective Studies
  • Scabies / epidemiology
  • Scabies / veterinary
  • Sentinel Surveillance / veterinary*
  • Trypanosomiasis / epidemiology
  • Trypanosomiasis / veterinary