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an epidemiological study of listeriosis in dairy cattle

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Milk<strong>in</strong>g cows (%) Rep. heifers (%) Dairy calves (%)<br />

Cl<strong>in</strong>ical signs n α =238 n ß =146 n α =127 n ß =65 n α =40 n ß =11<br />

silage eye 194 (81.5) 117 (80.1) 111 (87.4) 52 (80) 34 (85) 8 (72.7)<br />

s. eye <strong>an</strong>d n. signs 14 (5.9) 3 (2.1) 9 (7.1) 6 (9.2) 6 (15) 3 (27.3)<br />

nervous signs 14 (5.9) 14 (9.6) 6 (4.7) 6 (9.2) 0 0<br />

abortion 10 (4.2) 9 (6.2) 0 0 0 0<br />

mastitis 4 (1.7) 1 (0.7) 0 0 0 0<br />

Sudden death 1 (0.4) 1 (07) 0 0 0 0<br />

Diarrhoea 1 (0.4) 1 (0.7) 0 0 0 0<br />

s. eye <strong>an</strong>d s. death 0 0 1 (0.8) 1 (1.6) 0 0<br />

α diagnosed by all three given alternatives, self, veter<strong>in</strong>ari<strong>an</strong>, VIC, ß diagnosed by veter<strong>in</strong>ari<strong>an</strong> or VIC, n<br />

number <strong>of</strong> cases<br />

2. 3. 7 Treatment :<br />

91.7% (388/423) <strong>of</strong> the cases reported between 1994 <strong>an</strong>d 1995 were treated. 95.6%<br />

(371/388) <strong>of</strong> treated cases recovered, 2.3% (9/388) died <strong>an</strong>d 2.1% (8/388) were culled.<br />

3.6% (15/423) were untreated <strong>an</strong>d for the rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g 4.7% (20/423) treatment was not<br />

reported. When cases were grouped accord<strong>in</strong>g to these present<strong>in</strong>g cl<strong>in</strong>ical signs recovery<br />

from silage eye was high (99%) while only 68.4% <strong>of</strong> the cases with nervous signs were<br />

reported to recover. This difference was statistically signific<strong>an</strong>t (P

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