Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Animal health research in the Small Ruminant Collaborative Research Support Program.
- Journal:
- Journal of animal science
- Year:
- 1989
- Authors:
- Alexander, A F et al.
- Affiliation:
- College of Vet. Med. and Biomed. Sci. · United States
Plain-English summary
In many developing countries, diseases are a big problem for raising small farm animals like goats and sheep. The Small Ruminant Collaborative Research Support Program has been working on animal health projects to help improve the care of these animals since it started. Initially, the focus was on general health care and educating farmers, but now the projects are concentrating more on understanding specific infectious diseases. Some of the diseases being studied include caseous lymphadenitis (a bacterial infection), contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (a serious lung infection in goats), and others affecting sheep and alpacas. The program plans to continue this important research to create better vaccines using advanced technology.
Abstract
Disease is a major constraint in small ruminant production systems in lesser-developed countries throughout the world. Animal health projects have been an integral part of the Small Ruminant Collaborative Research Support Program (SR-CRSP) from its inception. At the onset, these projects were oriented toward herd health care and veterinary extension activities. Later, all the projects developed a sharper focus in that they were directed to more basic studies of infectious disease. Diseases currently being investigated include caseous lymphadenitis, contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, caprine arthritis-encephalitis, ovine pulmonary carcinoma, ovine progressive pneumonia and neonatal mortality of alpaca. Continued, sharply focused studies are projected for the future to take advantage of recombinant technology in the development of multivalent vaccines.
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