title: A preliminary passive surveillance of clinical diseases of cart pulling camels in Faisalabad metropolis (Pakistan).
abstract: We identified clinical disorders of all 200 city-dwelling cart pulling male camels attending the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan during a 7-year period (1993-1999). Data were collected prospectively on a predesigned form and collated. Diagnoses of different diseases/disorders were based on clinical examination supplemented with relevant laboratory tests. A total of 463 entries of 34 different clinical diseases/disorders were recorded. Sarcoptic mange (35% of 200 camels) followed by anhidrosis (23%) and trypanosomosis (19%) were the three most frequently encountered disorders. The body system most often involved was the integument (31%) followed by gastrointestinal (21%), locomotory (12%), thermoregulatory (6%), blood (6%), urogenital (6%), lymphatic (3%), nervous (3%), respiratory (3%) and ocular (3%).
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Ghulam
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Muhammad
authors.forename: Abdul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jabbar
authors.forename: Zafar
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Iqbal
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Athar
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saqib
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000818:Animals; D002162:Camelus; D007007:Hypohidrosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary; D008297:Male; D010154:Pakistan / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012532:Scabies / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance / Q000662:veterinary*; D014352:Trypanosomiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary