Prevalence and risk factors for foot and mouth disease infection in small ruminants in Israel

Preventive Veterinary Medicine
E ElnekaveE Klement

Abstract

During the last decade, 27% of the foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks in Israel affected small ruminant (SR) farms. FMD outbreaks reoccur in Israel despite vaccination of all livestock and application of control measures. We performed a cross-sectional serological study, aimed at estimating the prevalence of FMD infection in SR in Israel and the possible risk factors for infection. Overall, 2305 samples of adult sheep (n=1948) and goats (n=357) were collected during 2011-14 in two separate surveys. One survey was based on random sampling of intensive management system farms and the other was originally aimed at the detection of Brucella melitensis at extensive and semi-intensive management system farms. Sera were tested by NS blocking ELISA (PrioCHECK(®)). The serological prevalence of antibodies against non structural proteins (NSP) of FMD virus was estimated at 3.7% (95% confidence interval (CI95%)=3.0% -4.5%). Additionally, a significantly lower infection prevalence (p value=0.049) of 1.0% (CI95%=0.1%-3.6%) was found in a small sample (197 sera) of young SR, collected during 2012. The positive samples from adult SR were scattered all over Israel, though two significant infection clusters were found by the spatial scan st...Continue Reading

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May 21, 2016·Frontiers in Veterinary Science·Ehud ElnekaveEyal Klement
Feb 9, 2020·Transboundary and Emerging Diseases·Sharon KarnielyBoris Even Tov
Sep 26, 2020·Frontiers in Veterinary Science·Nagendrakumar B SinganallurWilna Vosloo

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