A CASE REPORT ON POLIOENCEPHALOMALACIA IN GOAT
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2021-11
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Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Chattogram-4225, Bangladesh
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A 9 months old male Jamuna Pari goat weighing about 35 kg was presented with the history of chronic ingestion of grain, recumbency and off-fed. Signs of incoordination, lateral recumbency with opisthotonus posture were identified during the clinical examination. The goat found to be responded promptly with thiamine indicated that, the goat was suffering from polioencephalomalacia. After diagnosed tentatively similar treatment was continued along with dextrose saline (10ml/kg intravenously) and found to be recovered after 4 days.
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Polioencephalomalacia, goat, opisthotonus, thiamine