Measure of association between selenium status and sepsis in cattle.

Dalir-Naghadeh, Bahram; Asri-Rezaei, Siamak; Alidady, Naser

Odds ratio was used to evaluate relationship between sepsis in cattle less than 1 year old and mastitis in cows and erythrocyte glutathione peroxides (GSH-PX) activity as an indicator of selenium status. Data were from 178 blood samples collected from referred cases to Urmia University, Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Low activity of GSH-PX was significantly associated with higher odds of developing sepsis ( P=0.005) in young cattle and mastitis ( P=0.044) in adult cows. The odds ratios for the low activity of GSH-PX on incidence of sepsis and mastitis were 4.74 and 3.95, respectively. Selenium deficiency was associated with sepsis in young cattle and mastitis in cows, i.e., cattle with low activity of erythrocyte GSH-PX were at increased risk of sepsis and mastitis.

GLUTATHIONE; BOVINE mastitis; SELENIUM deficiency diseases in animals; SEPSIS; CATTLE diseases; DRUG use testing

Comparative Clinical Pathology, 2006, Vol 15, Issue 3, p149

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10.1007/s00580-006-0622-6