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Research Article
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Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia: Serological Survey in Selected Districts of Jijiga Zone, Ethiopia
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Mohamed Sherif,
Mekonnen Addis
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Mulugeta Tefera
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ABSTRACT
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Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae is a highly contagious and serious respiratory disease of domestic goats, characterized by coughing, severe respiratory distress and high mortality rates. There is dearth of well documented information on the occurrence of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia among goats in Jijiga zone, Ethiopia. Therefore, this study was designed with the aims to determine the seroprevalence of caprine pleuropneumonia in the selected districts of Jijiga zone and to assess potential risk factors on the occurrence of the disease. Cross-sectional study design was conducted from November 2011 to March 2012 among selected districts of Jijiga zone namely Jijiga, Kebri Beyah and Tuli Guled districts. A total of 334 goat sera were examined for the presence of specific antibodies against Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae using complement fixation test. Proportions and chi square test statistics were used to analyze the data. District, sex and age of the goats were considered to be the major risk factors for the occurrence of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia. The overall seroprevalence of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia in Jijiga zone was proved to be 32.63%. The seroprevalence of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia at District level was confirmed to be 34, 33.64 and 28.38% in Jijiga, Kebri Beyah and Tuli Guled districts, respectively. The result indicated that there was no statistical significant difference (p>0.05) on seropositivity among the three districts and between the two sex of goats examined in this research. Age was found to be significantly associated (p<0.05) with the prevalence of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia in goats. In conclusion the present study indicated that the overall prevalence of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia in Jijiga zone was high and underlines the importance of further epidemiological study of the disease and its associated risk factors and implementation of appropriate preventive and control measures. Besides to this finding suggests the need to implement strict awareness creation among goat owners on vaccination of their animals in order to decrease the prevalence of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia in Jijiga, Kebri Beyah and Tuli Guled districts.
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Received:
June 19, 2012; Accepted: September 05, 2012;
Published: December 04, 2012 |
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INTRODUCTION
Somali Regional State of Ethiopia is well known for its large number of small
ruminants. According to the report of Central Statistical Agency (CSA,
2008), the small ruminant population of Somali region is 1,162,743 sheep
and 1,374,540 goats. Despite all these, the country fails to properly utilize
this huge resource as diseases take a lion share among several factors that
hamper the productivity of the sector. However, less attention is given to increase
their productivity, the majority of the goat populations do exist in lowland
under pastoral production system, where the animal health service delivery is
very poor and diseases like Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCPP), Blue
Tongue, Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), Brucellosis, External and Internal
parasites are rampant (Mekuria and Asmare, 2010).
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, caused by Mycoplasma capricolum subsp.
Capripneumoniae (Mccp), is one of the most severe diseases of goats (Thiaucourt
and Bolske, 1996). Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia affects the respiratory
tract and is extremely contagious and frequently fatal. In naive flocks, the
morbidity rate may reach 100% and the mortality rate can be as high as 80%.
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia causes major economic losses in East Africa
and the Middle East, where it is endemic. During the only confirmed outbreak
in wild ruminants, the morbidity rate was 100% in wild goats and 83% in Nubian
ibex. The mortality rates in these two species were 82 and 58%, respectively.
Goats are the primary hosts (Arif et al., 2007).
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, a disease of major economic importance,
poses substantial economic losses to goat production. The direct losses are
due to high mortality reduced milk and meat yield, cost of treatment, preventive
vaccination, disease diagnosis and surveillance. Additionally, indirect losses
result from trade restrictions (Eshetu et al., 2007).
In Ethiopia the presence of CCPP has been suspected since 1983 and later confirmed
in 1990 (Mekuria and Asmare, 2010). The current situation
CCPP has been reported from almost all regions of Ethiopia and is a special
problem of goats in pastoral areas of the country including Afar, Borana, Omo
Valley and in the lowlands of Tigray where there is large population of goats
(Tarekegn et al., 2012).
In spite of the aforementioned prevailing situation and the presence of a number of problems due to CCPP there is dearth of well-documented information on the occurrence of CCPP among goats in Jijiga zone, Ethiopia. Therefore, this study was designed with the aims to determine the seroprevalence of CCPP in the selected woredas of Jijiga zone and to assess potential risk factors such as District, sex and age of the goats for the occurrence of CCPP. MATERIALS AND METHODS
Description of study area: Jijiga administrative zone is divided into
three separate Livelihood zones as sedentary agriculturalists, agro-pastoralists
and pastoralists. As an administrative zone, it borders Shinile administrative
zone to the North, the Hararghe highlands of Oromia Region to the West, Dagahbur
to the South and Somalia to the East. The estimated total livestock population
of the zone includes 248,435 cattle, 666,130 sheep, 503,881 goats, 72,390 camel
and 10,548 poultry. The zone consists of seven districts namely, Jijiga, Babili,
Gursum, Awbare, Kebribayah, Harshin and Tuli-Guled. There are no permanent rivers
running through the zone. However, Fafan River which is seasonal, passes through
parts of the zone between Jijiga and Bombas. Other valleys that are important
for grazing and that carry water during rainy seasons are Jerer and Dakhata
valleys. Jijiga, Kebribayah and Tuli Guled districts are found at 630, 692 and
663 km, respectively, east of Addis Ababa. Generally, the Jijiga zone represents
a vast lowland area of SNRS. The climate is generally semi arid and arid with
annual average rainfall records 560 mm the annual daily minimum and maximum
temperature ranges from 13-27°C (CSA, 2011).
Study design: A cross-sectional seroepidemiological study was conducted in Jijiga, Kebribayah and Tuli Guled districts; Jijiga zone, Eastern Ethiopia, from November 2011 to March 2012. The serological survey was carried out to determine the individual animal seroprevalence and to identify the risk factors associated with seropositivity to CCPP in extensive goat production system of the Jijiga zone. Study population: The target study population comprised goats of all ages and both sex in the selected districts of Jijiga zone.
Sample size: To calculate the total sample size, the following parameters
were used: 95% level of confidence (CL), 5% desired level of precision and 32%
prevalence of CCPP in the zone confirmed by Mohammed (2008),
the sample size was determined using the formula given in Thrustfield
(2005):
Where:
n |
= |
Required sample size |
Pexp |
= |
Expected prevalence |
d |
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Desired absolute precision |
Therefore, based on the above formula, the total sample size was calculated to be 334. Thus, a total of 334 blood samples were collected from goats for further laboratory investigation. Sampling technique: The three districts of the zone were selected purposively taking in to account that no previous study has been conducted in the districts. Peasant Association were selected purposively based on their location, accessibility and goat population. Flocks and individual animals sampling were selected randomly. Serum sample collection: Animals were restrained by owners and 10 mL of blood sample were collected from the jugular vein using vacutainer tubes. The samples were kept under the shade in a slant position for four hours and centrifuged. The sera sample were transferred to serum tubes and kept at -20°C until brought to the laboratory for analysis. Corresponding to each sample, the age and sex of every animal and georeference information were collected and registered on a separate case book (Table 1).
Table 1: |
Samples collected and analyzed during the study period |
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Complement fixation test: Collected serum samples were examined for
the presence of specific antibodies against M. capricolum sub species capripneumoniae
by Complement Fixation Test (CFT)in the National Veterinary Institute (NVI),
Debre Zeit, Ethiopia. The test was undertaken according to the standard operating
procedures of OIE (2004).
Data analysis: The collected data were stored in Microsoft office Excel 2007 spreadsheet. Laboratory investigation results were analyzed using descriptive statistics by STATA version 8. A statistical test of Chi-square was used. In all the analyses, confidence level was at 95% and p<0.05 was taken for significance. RESULTS In this study, a total of 334 goat sera samples were collected from selected districts. All samples were tested for the presence of serum antibodies against CCPP infection using CFT with Mccp antigens. The overall seroprevalence of CCPP was proved to be 32.63% using CFT (Table 2). The highest CCPP seroprevalence was observed in Jijiga (34%) and the lowest seroprevalence was recorded in Tuli Guled (28.38%). There was no significant difference (p>0.05) in CCPP seroprevalence among Jijiga, Kebribayah and Tuli Guled districts. The age of the study animals were categorized into three groups: age group-1 (<2 years), age group-2 (2-4 years) and age group-3 (>4 years) old. The three age groups were compared for the seropositivity of CCPP. The seroprevalence of CCPP was proved to be highest in those animals which were above 4 years old (38.59%). The seroprevalence of CCPP was known to be lowest in younger goats (25.17%).Statistical analysis of the data showed that there was significant difference (p<0.05) in seroprevalence of CCPP among age groups (Table 3). The seroprevalence of CCPP were confirmed to be higher in female goats (33.03) than male goats (29.20%). However, there was no significant difference (p>0.05) in CCPP seroprevalence between the two sex (Table 4).
Table 2: |
Seroprevalence of CCPP among goat in selected districts of
Jijiga zone |
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Table 3: |
Seroprevalence of CCPP among ages of goats |
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Table 4: |
Seroprevalence of CCPP between sexes of goats |
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DISCUSSION
The overall seroprevalence of CCPP in the study areas was 32.63% (CI = 26.50-38.76%).
The finding in the present study was in line with the findings of Mohammed
(2008), Hadush et al. (2009), Eshetu
et al. (2007) and Ingle et al. (2008),
who reported seroprevalence of 32% in Jijiga, 32.68% in Northern Ethiopia, 31%
in export abattoir Debre Zeit and 33.67% in Nagpur District of Vidarbha region
of Pakistan, respectively.
The overall seroprevalence of CCPP in the present study was lower than the
findings of Mamo (1996) and Degefa
(1993) who reported seroprevalence of 51.1% in east Shoa and 66.7% in Yabello,
respectively. However, the overall seroprevalence of CCPP in this study was
higher than that of Beyene (2003), Mathiase
(2009), Tesfaye et al. (2011), Mekuria
and Asmare (2010) and Regassa et al. (2010)
who reported seroprevalence of 6% in and around Dire Dawa, 10.88% in and around
Dire Dawa, 13.2% in Southern Ethiopia, 18.61% in Southern Ethiopia 22.49% in
Afar Region, respectively. The variations in the prevalence of CCPP reported
from different parts of Ethiopia could be due to differences in the agro-ecological
system, management, production systems, population density, the type of tests
used to evaluate the seroprevalence of CCPP and the time of sampling as compared
to the present study.
The Seroprevalence of CCPP in the three districts of Jijiga zone was 34, 33.64
and 28.38% in Jijiga, Kebribayah and Tuli Guled districts, respectively. The
results showed that higher prevalence were reported in Jijiga and Kebribayah
this could be related to large number of animals reared by an individual farmer
and animals have large grazing land so they have an access to contact with an
infected animals and the results were compared using chi-square method and revealed
that the difference was not statically significant (p>0.05). Similar suggestion
was also given by Eshetu et al. (2007), Hadush
et al. (2009) and Lefevre et al. (1987).
Seroprevalence of 25.17, 38.36 and 38.59% were recorded in young, adult age
and old age categories, respectively. The differences in seroprevalence among
the age categories were statistically significant (p<0.05). Old age and adult
age category has showed significantly different seroprevalence as compared to
the young age category (p<0.05). The higher prevalence of the disease in
old age category when compared to the young age category might be explained
by the fact that humoral immunity to CCPP is influenced by age. So that age
has affected the epidemiology of CCPP and the adult are more susceptible than
young. The seroprevalence of CCPP observed in this study was in agreement with
previous reports of Tesfaye et al. (2011), Regassa
et al. (2010) and Mohammed (2008) who reported
a statistically significant difference among ages.
The sex specific prevalence of CCPP was proved to be 33.03% in female and 29.20%
in male goats. The occurrence of the disease across sex factor showed that there
was no significant statistical difference (p>0.05) between male and female
goats. This result was contradicted with Mohammed (2008)
and Regassa et al. (2010). But this result was
compatible with similar observations made by Mekuria and
Asmare (2010) who reported sex of the animal was not associated with seropositivity
and also had agreed (Hadush et al., 2009). Tesfaye
et al. (2011) Gezahegn (1993) and Mekuria
et al. (2008) in studies conducted in different parts.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The study incorporated in this research was undertaken using the research grant allocated by College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Jimma University. The researchers are grateful to the university in particular and government of Ethiopia, in general, for providing them the research fund. We wish to express our gratitude to National Veterinary Institute for the support we received in testing the samples. Lastly yet very importantly, the researchers would like to use this opportunity to thank the goat owners in Jijiga, Kebribayah and Tuli Guled districts, who helped them in samples collection and contributing significantly in the work during the research.
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