Mycobacterium Avium Subspecies ParatuberculosisMultibacillary Infection (Johne’s disease) in
at Teddy Goat
A.Sikandar¹*, A.H.Cheema2, M. Younus1
and Hafsa Zaneb2
1College
of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Jhang; 2University of
Veterinary and Animal Sciences,
Lahore,
Pakistan
*Corresponding author: drarbab786@gmail.com
Abstract
A 9-year old, debilitated, female teddy goat,
with a body weight of about 23 kg, was subjected to smear staining,
histopathological examination and ELISA for the diagnosis of Johne’s disease
(JD).During postmortem, the intestine
showed thick corrugated mucosa and the mesenteric lymph nodes were found
enlarged and edematous. Acid fast bacilli of multibacillary form were detected
in Ziehl-Neelsen stained smears prepared form the tissues which showed gross
pathology. Histopathologically, the ileal mucosa was intensely infiltrated by
mononuclear cells and one of the ileum-associated lymph node revealed a large
granuloma in its para cortical region. Special staining of tissue sections
demonstrated the occurrence of acid fast bacilli. The JD case was confirmed by
using indirect ELISA. The present case was differed from the previously reported
studies in two aspects viz 1) A confirmed case of multibacillary form of JD in a
teddy goat 2) Unusual presence of a large granuloma in the lymph node.