Sheep and goats are both small ruminants with cosmopolitan distributions due to their being kept historically and in modern times as grazers both individually and in herds in return for their production of milk, wool, and meat.[1] As such, the diseases of these animals are of great economic importance to humans.
Prion diseases[edit | edit source]
Viral diseases[edit | edit source]
Diseases caused by viruses include:
- Akabane virus infection
- bluetongue disease
- border disease (hairy shaker disease)
- Cache Valley virus infection
- caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE)
- enzootic nasal adenocarcinoma
- foot-and-mouth disease
- mastitis
- Nairobi sheep disease orthonairovirus (NSDV) infection
- orf, also known as contagious ecthyma, contagious pustular dermatitis, infectious labial dermatitis, thistle disease, sore mouth, or scabby mouth
- ovine encephalomyelitis (louping ill)
- ovine progressive pneumonia (OPP)
- ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma
- ovine rinderpest, also known as peste des petits ruminants (PPR)
- Rift Valley fever
- Schmallenberg virus infection
- ulcerative dermatosis
- variola caprina (goatpox)
- variola ovina (sheeppox)
- Wesselsbron virus infection
Bacterial diseases[edit | edit source]
Diseases caused by bacteria include:
- anaplasmosis
- blackleg
- braxy
- brucellosis
- caseous lymphadenitis
- chlamydiosis, also known as enzootic abortion of ewes (EAE)
- contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
- dermatophilosis, also known as cutaneous streptothricosis, rainscald, rain rot, lumpy wool, or strawberry footrot
- ehrlichiosis
- enterotoxemia
- enzootic posthitis and vulvitis, also known as sheath rot, pizzle rot, or enzootic balanoposthitis
- foot rot
- infectious necrotic hepatitis
- lamb dysentery (Clostridium perfringens type B disease)
- leptospirosis
- listeriosis
- mastitis
- mycoplasmosis
- paratuberculosis (Johne's disease)
- pasteurellosis
- Q fever
- salmonellosis
- struck (Clostridium perfringens type C disease)
- tularemia
- ulcerative balanoposthitis and vulvitis, also known as necrotic balanoposthitis/vulvitis, pizzle disease, knobrot, or peestersiekte
- vibriosis
Fungal diseases[edit | edit source]
Diseases caused by funguses include
Parasitic diseases[edit | edit source]
Parasites causing disease in sheep and goats include diseases caused by protozoa, helminths, tapeworms and roundworms.
Protozoa[edit | edit source]
- Babesia species
- Cryptosporidium parvum
- Eimeria species
- Giardia intestinalis
- Neospora caninum
- Sarcocystis species
- Theileria lestoquardi (hirsi)[2]
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Trypanosoma species
Helminths[edit | edit source]
Flatworms[edit | edit source]
Tapeworms[edit | edit source]
Roundworms[edit | edit source]
- Chabertia ovina
- Dictyocaulus filaria
- Elaeophora schneideri
- Haemonchus contortus
- Cooperia species
- Muellerius capillaris
- Nematodirus species
- Neostrongylus linearis
- Oesophagostomum species
- parasitic bronchitis, also known as "hoose"
- Protostrongylus refescens
- Teladorsagia circumcincta
- Trichostrongylus species
- Trichuris ovis
Arachnids and insects[edit | edit source]
Ticks[edit | edit source]
- Amblyomma species
- Boophilus species
- Dermacentor species
- Haemaphysalis species
- Hyalomma species
- Ixodes species
- Rhipicephalus species
Mites (mange)[edit | edit source]
- Chorioptes bovis
- Demodex ovis
- Demodex caprae
- Psorobia ovis[3]
- Psoroptes ovis
- Sarcoptes scabiei var. caprae
- Sarcoptes scabiei var. ovis
Lice[edit | edit source]
- chewing lice[4]
- Damalinia caprae (goats)
- Damalinia crassipes (goats)
- Damalinia limbata (goats)
- Damalinia ovis (sheep)
- sucking lice[4]
- Linognathus africanus (sheep and goats)
- Linognathus ovillus (sheep)
- Linognathus pedalis (sheep)
- Linognathus stenopsis (Gots
)
Flies[edit | edit source]
- mosquitoes
- myiasis
- fly strike
- Oestrus ovis (sheep bot fly)
- sheep ked (Melophagus ovinus)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Pugh, D. G. (2002). Sheep and Goat Medicine. Philadelphia: Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-9052-1.
- ↑ Kirvar, E; Ilhan, T; Katzer, F; Wilkie, G; Hooshmand-Rad, P; Brown, D (29 June 1998). "Detection of Theileria lestoquardi (hirci) in ticks, sheep, and goats using the polymerase chain reaction". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 849: 52–62. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11033.x. PMID 9668449.
- ↑ "Mange in Sheep and Goats". The Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Lice in Sheep and Goats". The Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2019-06-17.