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Table 9.1 continued

Clinical disease Possible diseases/ Ante-mortem sample Post-mortem laboratory
syndrome conditions/causes samples
ACUTE WEIGHT E. coli/perinatal diarrhoea, Whole blood in Whole blood, thick and
LOSS lamb dysentery anticoagulant thin blood smears
Diarrhoea PPR, viral diarrhoea (corona/ Thick and thin blood Faecal sample, intestinal
Anaemia rotavirus etc.) smears tissue, intestinal contents
Jaundice with or Fascioliaisis, anaplasmosis, Serum, faecal sample Liver
without fever, loss theilleriosis
of appetite

Note: *Rinderpest has now been successfully eradicated worldwide.

Endnote OIE (n.d.) Terrestrial Animal Health Code. Volumes
1 and 2. http://www.oie.int/standard-setting/
1 AHS = African horse sickness, BSE = bovine terrestrial-code/access-online/.
th
spongiform encephalopathy, CSF = classical swine Thrusfield, M. (2018) Veterinary Epidemiology, 4 Ed.
fever, FMD = foot and mouth disease, PPR = peste John Wiley and sons Ltd, Hobroken, NJ
des petits ruminants, CBPP = contagious bovine
pleuropneumonia.

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