Evaluation of The Effıciency of Glutaraldehyde Coagulation Test in Some Cattle Diseases: 2021-2022 Retrospective Study

Abstract

Metabolic disorders occurring in negative energy balance (NEB) in cows cause diseases related to immunosuppression and cause economic losses. Although treatment, animal welfare and herd immunity are possible with comprehensive clinical diagnostics combined with laboratory evaluation, the applicability and availability of these analytes in the farm setting is often limited. Therefore, the glutaraldehyde coagulation (GC) test, which is a fast, practical and inexpensive test, is useful in the diagnosis of inflammatory diseases of cattle. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the GC test in certain bovine diseases whose etiology is classified as infectious or non-infectious as a result of clinical and laboratory examinations. The animal material was 40 Holstein cows in total with various clinical findings which were brought to Harran University, Veterinary Faculty Animal Hospital for diagnosis and treatment. Following the anamnesis, physical examinations of all the cows were performed. As a result of the hemogram analysis of the venous blood samples (8-10 mL) along with the physical examination findings, the cows were divided into two subgroups as Infectious (n:14) and Non-Infectious (n:26), GC test was performed from the venous blood samples. In the physical examination, respiratory rate, heart rate and body temperature of the cows in the Infectious Group were higher than those of the Non-Infectious Group (p