List of infectious sheep and goat diseases

Sheep and goats are both small ruminants with cosmopolitan distributions due to their being kept historically and in modern times as grazers both individually and in herds in return for their production of milk, wool, and meat.[1] As such, the diseases of these animals are of great economic importance to humans.

Prioners diseases

Ewe with bare patches on rear end from scraping

Diseases caused prions include:

Viral diseases

Diseases caused by viruses include:

Bacterial diseases

Diseases caused by bacteria include:

Fungal diseases

A sheep showing clinical symptoms of facial eczema.

Diseases caused by funguses include

Parasitic diseases

Parasites causing disease in sheep and goats include diseases caused by protozoa, helminths, tapeworms and roundworms.

Protozoa

Flatworms

Tapeworms

E. granulosus life cycle

Roundworms

Ticks

Mites (mange)

Lice

  • chewing lice [4]
    • Damalinia caprae (goats)
    • Damalinia crassipes (goats)
    • Damalinia limbata (goats)
    • Damalinia ovis (sheep)
  • sucking lice [4]
    • Linognathus africanus (sheep and goats)
    • Linognathus ovillus (sheep)
    • Linognathus pedalis (sheep)
    • Linognathus stenopsis (goats)

Flies

References

  1. Pugh, D. G. (2002). Sheep and Goat Medicine. Philadelphia: Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-9052-1.
  2. Kirvar, E; Ilhan, T; Katzer, F; Wilkie, G; Hooshmand-Rad, P; Brown, D (29 June 1998). "Detection of Theileria lestoquardi (hirci) in ticks, sheep, and goats using the polymerase chain reaction". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 849: 52–62. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11033.x. PMID 9668449.
  3. "Mange in Sheep and Goats". The Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  4. "Lice in Sheep and Goats". The Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
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