TY - BOOK AU - Laeeque, Sh. M AU - Dr. M. Sarwar Khan AU - Dr. Muhammd ED - ED - Faculty of Veterinary Sciences TI - Prevalence Of Camel Tuberculosis By Using Short Thermal Test & Identificatiuon Of Organism From Lymph U1 - 0473,T PY - 1994/// KW - Department of Clinical Medicine & Surgery N1 - In the present study an attempt was made to measure the prevalence of tuberculosis in camels by applying tuberculin test and post mortem examination of reactors and non reactors. Gross and microbiological examination of various lymph nodes of reactors and non-reactors was conducted. Animals were physically normal, thin and emaciated and of different age groups. Short thermal test was employed as diagnostic test. The readings were taken at 8 hour post inoculation of tuberculin, and heat concentrated sysnthetic medium tuberculin (HCSM) was used at dose of 4m1 S/c. No adverse reaction of HCSM was noted during research. Eleven animals gave positive reaction while no false positive and false negative case was recorded. Similarly no case of milliary T.B. could be noted among experimental animals. Majority of the diseased animals were detected from a group of emaciated and aged animals. Whereas a small number from a group of thin animals was also affected. However, a group physically normal camels was found free from T.B. Positive reactors showed higher pulse and respiration rate compared with negative reactors, post 8 hour inoculation. Positive reactors were found to be a model set to observe the pattern of temperature rise during STT. 2 out of 3 positive reactors, showed macroscopic lesionsin mediastinal, lymph nodes. Out, of these 1 showed characteristic lesions of T.B. 1 showed only pin head point lesions in early stages. While other 1 showed only Mycobacterium tuberculosis on bacteriological examination and proved no visible lesions (NVL). It was found that distribution of lesions were high among those animals which showed temperature difference (4oF between first and final reading. This is notworthy that lung lymph nodes involvement was higher as compared to the lymph nodes from abdominal cavity, no lesion or acid fast bacilli (AFB) detected from supramammary lymph nodes of experimental animals Overall 3 of the animals tested showed prevalence of tuberculosis ER -