PREVALENCE OF TUBERCULLOSIS IN GOAT AT DINAJPUR DISTRICT IN BANGLADESH

Abstract

Tuberculosis of goat is a zoonotic, highly infectious bacterial diseases caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex subsp. caprae. The duration of the study was from January to June, 2017. According to this study there was no significant different of the disease between male and female (p=0.746). The highest number of positive TB was found in female goats that are equivalent to 7.14%, while Inclusive was 11.43% and the negative was 81.43%. In terms of males the positive rate was 4.44%, the inclusive test was 8.89% whereas the negative case was 86.67%. In this study showed there was nonsignificant difference of the disease among goat breeds (P=0.215) as demonstrated in (table 4.2). The highest prevalence rate11.42% was recorded in the breed of Jamunapari followed by Cross breed 6.90% in spite of the lowest prevalence 2.85% was found in indigenous breed. On the other result of the present that the highest number of positive TB in goat 10.00% was found in Mirjapur while the lowest positive rate (3.08%) was noted in Nayanpur. According to the previous history of tuberculosis and PPD test performed, most of the farmers 102 88.7% reported that there was no previous history of tuberculosis and 91(79.1%) of the farmers stated that there was no PPD test performed although13 (11.3%) of the farmers reported that there was previous history of tuberculosis 24 (20.9%) of them replied that there was PPD test performed. According to the positive case, females were higher and more susceptible than males. So the current investigation should be concluded that female goats were higher prevalence of tuberculosis than the males, body conditions of the studied goats were in poor condition, poor management practice such as housing system, nutrition and ventilation.