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  • Research Article   
  • Epidemiol,
  • DOI: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000380

Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobius in Sheep and Goats abscesses in Nyala, South Darfur State, Sudan

Khadeega YHS1,2, El Sanousi SM3 and Mohamed AEM3*
1Ministry of Animal Resources, Nyala, South Darfur State, Sudan
2Department of Preventive Medicine and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Khartoum University, Khartoum, Sudan
3Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Khartoum University, Khartoum, Sudan
*Corresponding Author : Mohamed AEM, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Khartoum University, Khartoum, Sudan, Tel: 4915214844068, Email: Ahmed.Mohamed@tiho-hannover.de

Received Date: Nov 18, 2019 / Accepted Date: Jul 17, 2020 / Published Date: Jul 24, 2020

Abstract

This study was conducted in Nyala, South Darfur State; samples were collected between August and November 2015 aiming at investigating the prevalence of Morel’s disease caused by Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobius in sheep and goats at meat inspection in Nyala North abattoir. Out of 1050 slaughtered animals (441 sheep and 609 goats) 24 sheep (5.4%) and 25 goats (4.1%) had superficial lymph nodes abscesses, S. aureus subsp. anaerobius was isolated from 18 (72%), 14 (58.3%) of sheep and goats, respectively, giving prevalence rates of 4.1% in sheep and 2.3% in goats. Fisher’s test showed that there was no significant association between the prevalence of Morel’s disease between sheep and goats (p<0.05). The parotid (36%) and prescapular (20%) lymph nodes were more frequently affected by Morel’s disease in sheep and the prescapular (37.5%) and precrural (20.8%) in goats. The position of abscess was located close to the lymph node in goats and close to and/or within the lymph nodes in sheep. In one sheep, 3 abscesses were observed at the same time, and in one goat 2 abscesses were observed. The size of one abscess in sheep reached 12.5×14.5 cm. The resulting of this study revealed the high prevalence of Morel’s disease in sheep and goats and the great economic losses due to triming carcass and skin.

Keywords: Morel’s disease; Sheep; Goat; Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobius; Sudan

Citation: Khadeega YHS, El Sanousi SM, Mohamed AEM (2020) Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobius in Sheep and Goats abscesses in Nyala, South Darfur State, Sudan. Epidemiol Sci 10: 380 Doi: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000380

Copyright: © 2020 Khadeega YHS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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