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Scientific Article

Facial eczema in goats: The toxicity of sporidesmin in goats and its pathology

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Pages 18-22 | Accepted 26 Feb 1991, Published online: 22 Feb 2011
 

Abstract

Groups of six goats were orally dosed with sporidesmin at rates of 0.3, 0.6, 1.2 and 2.4 mg of sporidesmin per kg body weight and their responses up to 6 weeks later compared with those of sheep dosed at the same time. Clinical facial eczema and pathological lesions similar to those found in sheep were found in all the goat breeds, but at higher dose rates of sporidesmin than those which caused equivalent lesions in sheep. Saanens were the most susceptible goat breed, requiring 2–4 times as much sporidesmin as sheep to achieve similar effects. G4 and feral goats required 4–8 times the sheep dose of sporidesmin to obtain similar responses. Gamma-glutamyl-transferase reached its highest serum levels after 20 days while glutamate dehydrogenase and aspartate aminotransferase reached their highest levels between 10 and 20 days. Alkaline phosphatase did not rise consistently to high levels in affected goats.

The elevation in aspartate aminotransferase levels tended to be early and transient; glutamate dehydrogenase early and prolonged; gamma-glutamyltransferase late and prolonged, and alkaline phosphatase late and minor. There was considerable individual variation in the time at which elevations occurred and the levels which enzymes reached. Cholesterol and bilirubin levels were high if liver injury was severe. (New Zealand Veterinary Journal 39, 18–22, 1991)

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