Author(s)

Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed¹, Sumaya Hassan Ali¹, Abdisalam Mohamed Ali¹, Abdirazack Saleban Osman¹, Binti Abubakar Mohamed², Abdifatah Mohamud Ibar², Shafii Abdullahi Mohamed², Mohamed Abdelrahman Mohamed^1,2, Ahmed Ali Omar^1*, Zakaria Ibrahim Issack³

¹College of Veterinary Medicine, Abrar University, Mogadishu, Somalia.
²Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry, Somali National University, Mogadishu, Somalia.
³Faculty of Veterinary Science, Benadir University, Mogadishu, Somalia.

Contagious bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is an infectious and highly contagious respiratory disease of cattle and water buffalo, caused by the Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides. It induces significant economic losses and leads to a severe livestock production problem, negatively influencing people’s livelihoods of affected countries. In Somalia, there is no updated data on the prevalence and distribution of the disease. Hence, a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2022 to June 2023 in different villages under the Afgoye District of lower Shabelle region, Somalia. The main purpose of this study is to assess the sero-prevalence and identify the associated risk factors for the occurrence of the disease. In this study, villages, age, sex, breed, and body condition were considered as risk factors. A total of 90 blood samples were collected and tested in the laboratory using the Anti-CBPP Elisa kit test. Out of 90 serum samples from herd cattle, 32 were positive, resulting in an overall prevalence of 35.5%. In addition, we found a statistically significant variation between the prevalence of the disease and factors such as sex, age, body condition and breeds. In summary, the overall prevalence of Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in this study area is worth to be considered because there is a low quality of health care and less awareness of the Contagious bovine Pleuropneumonia effects on herds, which warrants the official authorities to act and follow appropriate preventive and control measures to reduce the incidence of the disease and generate appropriate controlling and prevention measures in all regions of Somalia.

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia, Sero-Prevalence, Cattle, Somalia, Mycoplasma, Cross Sectional Study

Ahmed, A. , Ali, S. , Ali, A. , Osman, A. , Mohamed, B. , Ibar, A. , Mohamed, S. , Mohamed, M. , Omar, A. and Issack, Z. (2024) Sero-Prevalence and Risk factors of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in Afgoye District Lower Shabelle Region, Somalia. Open Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 14, 11-20. doi: 10.4236/ojvm.2024.142002.