Efficiency of the Clinical Veterinary Diagnostic Practices and Drug Choices for Infectious Diseases in Livestock in Bangladesh

Summary As in most low‐income countries, adequate laboratory facilities are not available in Bangladesh to assist veterinarians in diagnosing animal diseases. We aimed to determine the efficiency of veterinary diagnoses for two common ruminant diseases in Bangladesh: Peste des petits ruminants (PPR)...

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Published in:Transboundary and emerging diseases 2017-08, Vol.64 (4), p.1329-1333
Main Authors: Haider, N., Khan, S. U., Islam, A., Osmani, M. G., Rahman, M. Z., Epstein, J. H., Daszak, P., Zeidner, N. S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal diseases
Animal health
Animals
Antibiotics
Antiviral Agents - administration & dosage
Bangladesh
Cattle
Cattle Diseases - diagnosis
clinical diagnostic practices
Diagnostic systems
FMD
Foot & mouth disease
Foot-and-Mouth Disease - diagnosis
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus - isolation & purification
Goat Diseases - diagnosis
Goats
Hospitals, Animal
Infectious diseases
Laboratories
Laboratory tests
Livestock
Peste des petits ruminants
Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants - diagnosis
Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus - isolation & purification
Polymerase chain reaction
Polymerase Chain Reaction - veterinary
PPR
Predictive Value of Tests
presumptive diagnoses
Real time
Sensitivity
Sensitivity and Specificity
specificity
Veterinary medicine
Veterinary surgeons
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Summary:Summary As in most low‐income countries, adequate laboratory facilities are not available in Bangladesh to assist veterinarians in diagnosing animal diseases. We aimed to determine the efficiency of veterinary diagnoses for two common ruminant diseases in Bangladesh: Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) and foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD). We conducted the study from May 2009 to August 2010 in three government veterinary hospitals where veterinarians collected samples from sick livestock and recorded the presumptive diagnosis on the basis of clinical presentations. Samples were tested for PPR and FMD using real‐time RT‐PCR. We estimated the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of the presumptive diagnoses when compared to laboratory tests. We tested 539 goats for PPR and 340 cattle and goats for FMD. Our results indicate that the veterinarians' presumptive diagnoses were different from laboratory findings for both PPR (P 
ISSN:1865-1674
1865-1682
DOI:10.1111/tbed.12502