1Division of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, SKUAST-J, R.S. Pura, Jammu, India
2Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: S Rahman; Email: srahmanskuastj@gmail.com
Online published on 23 September, 2016.
The study was conducted in government recognized and unorganised slaughter houses of sheep and goats in Jammu from the month of July 2013 to June 2014. In the present study, 300 kidney samples of sheep (150) and goats (150) were collected from these abattoirs for determining the patho-morphological changes. Prominent gross lesions in kidney affection included haemorrhage, infarction, hydronephrosis, amyloidosis and nephritis. Histopathological examination revealed massive interstitial haemorrage, MNC's infiltration, atrophy of glomeruli with presence of pinkish amyloid material, hypercellularity of glomeruli and tubular necrosis.
Sheep, goats, kidney diseases
