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- Title
New transtracheal bronchoalveolar lavage technique for the diagnosis of respiratory disease in sheep.
- Authors
Sheehan, M.; Markey, B.; Cassidy, J.; Ball, H.; Duane, M.; Doherty, M. L.
- Abstract
A new transtracheal bronchoalveolar lavage technique for the diagnosis of respiratory disease in sheep under field conditions was tested in 76 sheep. The sheep were divided into three groups, normal sheep, sheep with clinical signs of respiratory disease and housed sheep, on the basis of their respiratory disease history and husbandry conditions. The detection of Mannheimia haemolytico and Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae or parainfluenza virus type 3 and bovine respiratory syncytial virus antigen in the lavage samples was closely correlated with clinical disease. The sheep with clinical respiratory disease had a higher mean percentage of neutrophils in the lavage fluid than the sheep in the other two groups.
- Subjects
BRONCHOALVEOLAR lavage; IRRIGATION (Medicine); VETERINARY medicine; SHEEP diseases; LUNG disease diagnosis; RESPIRATORY diseases
- Publication
Veterinary Record: Journal of the British Veterinary Association, 2005, Vol 157, Issue 11, p309
- ISSN
0042-4900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1136/vr.157.11.309