study on some form of bovine pneumonia

Abstract

A total of 1234 cow lungs were examined grossly from
apparently healthy adults cows slaughtered at Basra during the
period from January 2005 to June 2005.
Tissue from pneumonia lungs were collected processed
sectioned at5- 6µ and stained for histopathological study conducted
on 127 consolidated lungs of adult cows.
Pneumonia has been classified according to the type of
inflammatory and pulmonary reaction as well as the lesion
duration. Pneumonia in the descending order of prevalence were
chronic interstitial pneumonia, fibrinous pneumonia,
fibrinopurulent pneumonia, acute suppurative pneumonia,
lymphoid pneumonia and chronic pneumonia .
The prevalence of pneumonia in adult cows on the basis of
histopathological examination in this study was 9.5%, the role of
the such lesion in cows were discussed.