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90. CONTROL OF ABORTIONS INDUCED DUE TO INFECTION

S. Kilari, A. Bhogle and S.N. Singh
Hoechst RousselVet. Pvt. Ltd,Off Pune Nagar Road,Wagholi, pune - 421207

' lndia is number one milk producer in the World today with the record ot 7i)
million tons production. This could be achieved due to intensrvc
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' crossbreeding program launched by Government of India, State Governmeni
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foundation (BAIF). However, per capita production per animal is much lovrer.
t *. There are variety of reasons for the low productivity.
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management practices there are number of emerging diseases like Infectious
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Bovine Rhinotracheitis (lBR) which hampers reproductive performance of our
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animals. IBR causes respiratory diseases like lBR, reproductive disorders
like infectious pustular vulvovaginitis/infectious pustular balanoposthtrs
(lPV/lPB). Abortions, infertility etc. IBR as one of the emerging virirl
diseases needs immediate attention to diagnose and prevent cjiseasi,
outbreaks. Diagnostic kit and IBR vaccine to be used to controt i,!
preventive vaccination and management of the disease with regrliiri
diagnosis. Similaily, Brucellosis also should be controlled by i'apid diagnosis
and preventive vaccination. Government of India has developerJ 11r.,
technology f or rapid diagnostic kits f or these diseases f cr the rlasr iu\^,/
years. Now the technology has been licensed to commerctai pharmaceLiticll
companies like Hoeshst Roussel Vet to manufacture these diagnostic kils,ir
large-scale. Similarly, IBR vaccine (IBRIVAX) is being nranufacruretl t,,t
Hoechst Roussel vet under the license grant from Govt. oi lndia to coltiol
IBR disease in cattle and buffaloes. Reproductive health is productive wc.iitir
and needs to be safeguarded by.proper Animal healtlr. !

91. STRESS AS A CAUSE OF ABORTTON tN THOROUqHBRED 1

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Sharma S.S., Purohit G.N. and Garg, N. +
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Department of Veterinary Obstetrics & Gynaecotogy, Cottege of Veterinary & Animat Science,
Bikaner (Rajesthan)
' 13 of the 23 pregnant thoroughbred mares put to alhot dry clinriitc
(Bikaner) from a humid climate (Tohana) aborted between May to Novenrbi,r
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 1996. Maximum abortions occurred during September (6) and October when
unusually hrgh temperature and humidity existed. The abortions bccurred
between 3-B month of pregnancy, 3 mares aborted during day hours
whereas 10 aborted during night. Only one aborted mare had tVin foetuses'
76" Vaginal 'and uterine swabs from aborting mares revealed no pathologic
rve organism except a few facultative anaerobic microbes' Repeated blood
?nt samples of aborting and pregnani mares revealed titres concluding to be
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positive tor EHV- | ln two mares only, one of which was from the aborting
group and the other irom the pregnant group which subsequently foaled
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normally. From none of the frozen aborted fetal samples any of the EHV-l'
EVA virus or any other bacteria could be isolated. There were no
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premonitory signs of abortion. The aborted foetuses and their placentae
)ur were neither autolysed nor showing any pathologic change' Repeated
itJ samples from stallions prepUce on culture revealed no pathognomonic
trs bacteria. The mares had been shifted from a humid climate with well
ral managed stud to a hot dry climate with poor managemental conditions' The
SE climatic and ma'nagemental comparisons of the two places showed a wide
lry variation elucidating that the mares were continously put to stress in the
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new envtronment and probably increased levels of glucocorticoid secretion
due to StreSS WaS responsible for the maSS scale and otherwise
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inconspicuous abortion.
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cal 92. STUDIES ON INCIDENCE OF ABORTION IN CROSSBRED
COWS
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by B.K. Singh and M.S.Thakur
rol Deptt. of obstetrics and Gynaecology, college of veterinary sci. & A.H.
Mhow'4453 446 (M.P)
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' Th. present work was conducted at,Livestock Farm, J.N.K.V.V. Jabhlpur. The
records pertaining to abortion was analysed for four years period i.e. 1980*84'in
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(112 J x 1i
total of 1030 pregnancies composing of 350 in H (1/2 G x 112 H), 185 A
4 H x 114 G),315 B (112 H x 114 Jx1/4G) and 180 C (112 B x 1/4 H x 1/4 G)
incidence
ciossbred cows. The overall incidence df abortion was 4.4 percent. Highest
of abortion was recorded. in B genetic group cows mated to brown swiss sires'
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summer significantly (P<q,01) higher (4.8%), incidence of abortion
was noted as

compared to rarny season- Paritywise incidence of abortion revealed

an increasing
parity (5.a peiient)'
trend as it was minimum in heifers (0.32%) and maximum in 6th
for early stage preganancy
Midterm pregnancy abortion was also higher (6'2 percent) than
oz (2.4 percent). Ies