INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 2

Clinical Management of Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis in a Cow

  • Author:
  • S. Sunandhadevi, P. Arun Nehru, N. Muniyappan
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 366 to 367

Devanahalli Dairy Camp Hospital Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural and Ramanagara Districts, Co-Operative Milk Producers Societies Union Ltd (BAMUL), Taluk Devanahalli, Bengaluru Rural District-562110, karnataka

*Corresponding author E-mail: vettyarun@gmail.com

Online published on 26 July, 2017.

Abstract

A female Holstein Friesian crossbred cow was presented with clinical signs of epiphora, conjunctivitis and corneal ulceration with purulent ocular discharge. The condition was tentatively diagnosed as infectious keratoconjunctivitis. The cattle were treated with antibiotic, anti-inflammatory drugs and Vitamin A. The signs of conjunctivitis and corneal ulcers of eye had substantially reduced in seven days of treatment and vision restoration was observed after fourteen days.

Keywords

Keratoconjunctivitis, menace, palpebral reflex