Journal of Tropical Diseases & Public Health

Bishoftu, Ethiopia

Biography

Tesfaye Belachew is an active researcher at the Department of Addis Ababa University, Bishoftu, Ethiopia. He also serves as faculty staff at the same department of Veterinary of Addis Ababa University, Bishoftu, Ethiopia.

Publications

• Review Article   
  Pasteurellosis Status in Ethiopia: A Comprehensive Review
  Author(s): Kula Jilo*, Tesfaye Belachew, Worku Birhanu, Dessalew Habte, Waktole Yadeta and Aden Giro
  
  Ethiopia has the largest national livestock populations in Africa. However, the productivity is one of the marginal due to a number of technical and non-technical factors. Infectious diseases like pasteurellosis are highly affecting livestock industry in the country. Pasteurellosis is a multifactorial disease caused by numerous etiologic agents. Mannheimia haemolytica, Bibersteinia trehalosi and Pasteurella multocida cause pasteurellosis in animals and humans. Pasteurella are commensal organisms of healthy animals which can be trigger with stress factors to cause fatal disease in farm animals. Infective agents acquired by inhalation of infected droplets or close contacts among susceptible animals. Pasteurellosis is responsible for huge mortality in feedlot animals worldwide. Haemorrhagic septicemia is an acute and characterized by sudden onset of fe.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2329-891X.20.8.351

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