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    Seroprevalence of Contagiuos Caprine Pleuropnemonia in Borana and Gujilow Lands Southern Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2008-06) Bekele, Tesfaye; Asfaw, Yilkal (PhD)
    A multi tage cr s ti nal erologicul study, que Ii nrHllr survcy and particip I ry apprai al were nducted n c ntagiou caprinc plcuropn umonia ( ' PI' fr m r. 2 07 to pril, 200 orana and uji 10\.\land , .'outh rn i-:.thiopiu. to determin the pn.:valcn of th id ntif) the ri k fact rs for the curren e of the di. ca ' and t a s th p~rception of the c mmunity on PP in parti ular and th r goat di . e in general. t tal f 951 erum sampl 900 from goats and 51 from h ep) were lIe ted and te ted u mg omplem nt Fixati n Te t ( FT). Que tionnaire ur ey were condu ted with 69 rand mly I cted hou ehold . Participatory di ea apprai al wa d ne \\ ith 12 in~ rmant gr up ' in 12 differ nt village th group size varying fr m 5-12 informant and with a t tal f 120 in~ rmant. ut of the 900 goat sera samples te ted 119 (13.2%) w re erop iti\e for PP, giving an overall seroprevalence of 13.2 % (95% I 11.0%-15.4%) in th tudyarea. r pr ",alence of 18.3% (95% 1=14.3%-22.7%), 11.6% (95% 1- 8%-15.2%) and 9.6% (950 /0 I 6. %-12.6% w re recorded in Liban, Teltale and Moyale District, re p ctively. h er pre\alenc rec rded among the district was significantly difD rent (p<0.05). Th r preval nc re orded in iban district was significantly different from that of Moyal Di trict (p<0.05). M r \ er, ut of 1 sheep samples tested, 3 (5.9%) wer eropo iti e. tati tical anal) i limed ri k fa tor howed that the roprevalence ob erved in ag gr up . fl ck ize gr up and di tan fr m et rinary service ntre were found t b ignificantl differ nt (p