Toxoplasma gondii usually parasitizes the host without producing clinical signs and rarely causes severe clinical manifestations in nonpregnant animals. On the other hand, it is a frequent cause of abortion and stillbirth in intermediate hosts, especially sheep and goats [3, 4]. Toxoplasma gondii ...
Examples of animal prion diseases include scrapie in sheep and goats, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk, transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME), feline spongiform encephalopathy, and BSE (also called "mad cow disease").Prion diseases are characterized by the absence of inflammation, ...
aMembers of the TSE family include (1) the diseases that afflict humans: kuru, Gertsmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD); and (2) the diseases that afflict animals: scrapie (sheep and goats), wasting disease (elk and deer)...
A. veronii infections have also caused the deaths of ducks and foxes [7,8]. However, there is no documentation of clinical symptoms and pathological changes in A. veronii causing disease in sheep in China. Respiratory diseases lead to high economic losses in the sheep industry worldwide. ...