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- Title
OVINE'S KIDNEY LESIONS, A PATHOLOGICAL STUDY IN TIKRIT CITY.
- Authors
Al-Sabaawy, H. B.; Abdulla, Sultan Ahmed
- Abstract
The current study included the collectionof 238 samples of kidneys from slaughtered sheep from butchers and Meat retail market of Tikrit city during four-month period of 2019. Gross and histopathological changes revealed in both male and female sheep in 32 samples 13,4%, lesions that found are varied and frequent with different percentage. Gross pathological lesions involved congestion of kidney, shrinkage of the capsule, as well as atrophy of the kidney. The histopathological examination represented by the high percentage of glomerularnephritis 21.87%, and interstitial nephritis 18.75%. Concerningcirculatory disturbances, it was reflected by hemorrhage and congestion 21.87%, coagulative necrosis 15.62%, and epithelial sclerosis 12.5%, epithelial hyperplasia 9.37%.However the rate of infection in females was higher than it in males. It can be concluded that glomerular nephritis is the most common lesion affecting sheep slaughtered in Tikrit city.
- Subjects
KIDNEYS; INTERSTITIAL nephritis; MEAT markets; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MEAT marketing; SHEEP breeding
- Publication
Veterinary Practitioner, 2020, Vol 21, p419
- ISSN
0972-4036
- Publication type
Article