Listeriosis in a peri-urban area: Cultural and molecular characterization of isolated from encephalitic goats.

Background And Aim: Listeriosis in food animals bears a significant threat to human health. Detailed investigations into the cause facilitate proper management of the disease. This study reports the cultural, pathological, and molecular characterization of isolated from encephalitic goats from peri-urban Guwahati, Assam.

Goatpox outbreak at a high altitude goat farm of Mizoram: possibility of wild life spill over to domestic goat population.

In this study, pox-like outbreaks in goat population was investigated that occurred in a high altitude goat farm located in Mizoram, a hilly state of North eastern India. The outbreak initially involved the serows, an wild animal belonging to the family Bovidae, subfamily Caprinae and genus Capricornis, the state animal of Mizoram. Later, the disease affected the domestic goat population.

Fluorescence polarization assay: Diagnostic evaluation for porcine brucellosis.

Brucellosis in pigs, caused by the bacterium Brucella suis, is an important zoonotic infection. In the present study, fluorescence polarization assay (FPA) was standardized and compared with indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (iELISA) and competitive ELISA (cELISA) for diagnosis of porcine brucellosis. Test performances were evaluated using representative panel (n = 100), samples from swine brucellosis outbreak (n = 300), samples from brucellosis suspected animals (n = 291) and sera samples from apparently healthy animals (n = 1121).

Identification and phylogenetic analysis of orf viruses isolated from outbreaks in goats of Assam, a northeastern state of India.

Two outbreaks of orf virus (ORFV) (a parapoxvirus) infection in goats, which occurred in Golaghat and Kamrup districts of Assam, a northeastern part of India, were investigated. The disease was diagnosed by standard virological and molecular techniques. The entire protein-coding region of B2L gene of two isolates were cloned and sequenced.