Review of infectious diseases of the camel.
2005
Abbas, B. | Omer, O. H.
Camels were formerly considered resistant to most of the diseases commonly affecting livestock, but as more research was conducted, camels were found to be susceptible to a large number of pathogenic agents. For some diseases such as pox, mange, and enterotoxaemia, camels were indeed more susceptible and manifested more severe signs than other ruminants in the same ecozones. Pneumonia, mastitis and calf diarrhoea are the most common bacterial diseases of camels and are caused by a large number of microorganisms. Pox, contagious echthyma, papillomatosis and rabies are the only established viral diseases in camels. Although infection with several other viruses, including rinderpest, bluetongue, African horse sickness and rift valley fever has been demonstrated by serological methods, camels did not show signs of disease in spite of being in close contact with affected livestock. Camels also did not develop clinical signs of foot and mouth disease after housing for several weeks with affected animals. Increased interest in the camel as a multipurpose animal has been met with increased research into the aetiology and pathology of camel diseases; very few studies, however, have been directed towards their control.
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