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Thüringer Ministerium für Infrastruktur und Landwirtschaft
Thuringia
Werner-Seelenbinder-Str. 8
99096 Erfurt
Website: External link to the authority
Vaccination as a tool to reduce the incidence of paratuberculosis in dairy goat flocks (OG: ParaVac)
Intensive dairy goat farms are often severely affected by paratuberculosis, a chronic intestinal infection. The OG joined forces to investigate whether vaccination in combination with hygiene and management measures can reduce the prevalence of paratuberculosis and whether this leads to a reduction in pathogen excretion into the milk/colostrum. On this basis, recommendations for the control of paratuberculosis on dairy goat farms should be developed.
The prevalence of pathogen-excreting goats fell from 30.0 % to 3.5 %. Both the vaccination and the removal of known shedders contributed to this. The paratuberculosis pathogen was not detectable in the colostrum of vaccinated mother goats. The detection of reproducible pathogens in lambing pens makes it clear that infection of the offspring is easily possible in these areas. Recommendations for the control of paratuberculosis will be provided by the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute and directly incorporated into the advisory activities of the Thuringian Sheep and Goat Health Service.
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) Institut für molekulare Pathogenese
Naumburger Str. 96a
07743 Jena
Phone: +49 3641 804-2240
Email: heike.koehler@fli.de
2019
completed
235,373
2019 LFE 0017
Thüringer Tierseuchenkasse - Project ParaVac
DEG0P - Wartburgkreis, DEG03 - Jena, Kreisfreie Stadt