Features of Respiratory Pathology of Goats

The article presents data from the analysis of the results of epizootological studies conducted in disadvantaged farms on the respiratory pathology of goats of high-milk breeds imported from different countries of Europe, as well as data from the clinical examination of sick animals revealed during the autopsy of the dead goats, pathoanatomical changes and the results of laboratory studies of pathological material samples selected from the dead animals. The main clinical symptoms in sick goats were: fever, cough and profuse-mucous and serous-mucous discharge from the nasal passages. The death of sick goats was mainly recorded in farms that did not use antibiotic therapy. At autopsy the following changes were revealed: lobular fibrinous bronchopneumonia with areas of coagulative necrosis, fibrinous pleurisy, fibrinous exudate in the alveoli of the lungs and interstitial pulmonary edema, in which the lung tissue on the cut takes a marble appearance. Mannheimia haemolytica was allocated from samples of pathological material taken from the dead goats. This pathogen is a commensal of the nasopharynx and upper respiratory system of ruminants. Antibodies to parainfluenza-3 virus and RSV were found in blood serum of goats.