List of infectious sheep and goat diseases

Sheep and goats are both small ruminants with cosmopolitan distributions due to their being kept historically and in modern times as grazers both individually and in herds in return for their production of milk, wool, and meat.^[1] As such, the diseases of these animals are of great economic importance to humans.

Prion diseases

scrapie

Viral diseases

Diseases caused by viruses include:

Akabane virus infection
bluetongue disease
border disease (hairy shaker disease)
Cache Valley virus infection
caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE)
enzootic nasal adenocarcinoma
foot-and-mouth disease
mastitis
Nairobi sheep disease orthonairovirus (NSDV) infection
orf, also known as contagious ecthyma, contagious pustular dermatitis, infectious labial dermatitis, thistle disease, sore mouth, or scabby mouth
ovine encephalomyelitis (louping ill)
ovine progressive pneumonia (OPP)
ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma
ovine rinderpest, also known as peste des petits ruminants (PPR)
Rift Valley fever
Schmallenberg virus infection
ulcerative dermatosis
variola caprina (goatpox)
variola ovina (sheeppox)
Wesselsbron virus infection

Bacterial diseases

Diseases caused by bacteria include:

anaplasmosis
blackleg
braxy
brucellosis
caseous lymphadenitis
chlamydiosis, also known as enzootic abortion of ewes (EAE)
contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
dermatophilosis, also known as cutaneous streptothricosis, rainscald, rain rot, lumpy wool, or strawberry footrot
ehrlichiosis
enterotoxemia
enzootic posthitis and vulvitis, also known as sheath rot, pizzle rot, or enzootic balanoposthitis
foot rot
infectious necrotic hepatitis
lamb dysentery (Clostridium perfringens type B disease)
leptospirosis
listeriosis
mastitis
mycoplasmosis
paratuberculosis (Johne's disease)
pasteurellosis
Q fever
salmonellosis
struck (Clostridium perfringens type C disease)
tularemia
ulcerative balanoposthitis and vulvitis, also known as necrotic balanoposthitis/vulvitis, pizzle disease, knobrot, or peestersiekte
vibriosis.

Fungal diseases

Diseases caused by funguses include

Parasitic diseases

Parasites causing disease in sheep and goats include diseases caused by protozoa, helminths, tapeworms and roundworms.

Protozoa

Helminths

Flatworms

Tapeworms

Roundworms

Chabertia ovina
Dictyocaulus filaria
Elaeophora schneideri
Haemonchus contortus
Cooperia species
Muellerius capillaris
Nematodirus species
Neostrongylus linearis
Oesophagostomum species
parasitic bronchitis, also known as "hoose"
Protostrongylus refescens
Teladorsagia circumcincta
Trichostrongylus species
Trichuris ovis

Arachnids and insects

Ticks

Amblyomma species
Boophilus species
Dermacentor species
Haemaphysalis species
Hyalomma species
Ixodes species
Rhipicephalus species

Mites (mange)

Lice

chewing lice^[4]
- Damalinia caprae (goats)
- Damalinia crassipes (goats)
- Damalinia limbata (goats)
- Damalinia ovis (sheep)
sucking lice^[4]
- Linognathus africanus (sheep and goats)
- Linognathus ovillus (sheep)
- Linognathus pedalis (sheep)
- Linognathus stenopsis (goats)

Flies

mosquitoes
- Aedes species
- Anopheles species
- Culex species
myiasis
- fly strike
  - Chrysomya species
  - Lucilia species
- Oestrus ovis (sheep bot fly)
sheep ked (Melophagus ovinus)

References

^ Pugh, D. G. (2002). Sheep and Goat Medicine. Philadelphia: Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-9052-1.
^ Kirvar, E; Ilhan, T; Katzer, F; Wilkie, G; Hooshmand-Rad, P; Brown, D (29 June 1998). "Detection of Theileria lestoquardi (hirci) in ticks, sheep, and goats using the polymerase chain reaction". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 849: 52–62. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11033.x. PMID 9668449.
^ "Mange in Sheep and Goats". The Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
^ ^a ^b "Lice in Sheep and Goats". The Merck Veterinary Manual. Retrieved 2019-06-17.