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.
Prion diseases
Ewe with bare patches on rear end from scraping
Diseases caused prions include:
Viral diseases
Diseases caused by viruses include:
- bluetongue disease
- foot-and-mouth disease
- goatpox
- maedi-visna
- orf
- louping ill, also known as ovine encephalomyelitis
- ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma, caused by jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus
- ovine rinderpest, also known as peste des petits ruminants (PPR)
- sheeppox
Bacterial diseases
Diseases caused by bacteria include:
- Blackleg
- Braxy
- Enterotoxemia
- Foot rot
- Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
- Chlamydophila abortus, causing chlamydiosis
- Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease)
- Listeriosis
- Fleece-rot
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.
Protozoal diseases
- Babesia species
- Anaplasma ovis
- Theileria hirci
- Cryptosporidium parvum
- Ehrlichia ovina
- Eimeria species
- Giardia intestinalis
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Trypanosoma species
- Sarcocystis species
Helminths
Flatworms
Tapeworms
E. granulosus life cycle
- Echinococcus granulosus
- Taenia ovis
- Taenia hydatigena
- Moniezia species
Roundworms
- Parasitic bronchitis, also known as "hoose"
- Elaeophora schneideri
- Haemonchus contortus
- Trichostrongylus species
- Teladorsagia circumcincta
- Cooperia species
- Nematodirus species
- Dictyocaulus filaria
- Protostrongylus refescens
- Muellerius capillaris
- Oesophagostomum species
- Neostrongylus linearis
- Chabertia ovina
- Trichuris ovis
Arachnids and insects
Ticks
- Ixodes species
- Amblyomma species
- Boophilus species
- Dermacentor species
- Haemaphysalis species
- Hyalomma species
- Rhipicephalus species
Mites
- Psoroptes ovis
- Sarcoptes ovis
- Chorioptes ovis
- Demodex ovis
- Demodex caprae
Lice
- Lepikentron ovis
- Bovicola caprae
- Linognathus ovillus
- Linognathus stenopsis
Diptera
- Aedes species
- Anopheles species
- Chrysomya species
- Culex species
- Lucilia species
- Oestrus ovis
- Fly strike, a type of myiasis
References
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