This presentation comprises of almost all the bacteria and other agents too that are involved in causing reproductive diseases in animals, especially cattle.

1. Bacterial diseases of
reproductive importance
Sakina Rubab
7th semester

2. Vibriosis
 Bovine campylobacteriosis
 venereal
 Campylobacter fetus
 Campylobacter jejuni
 4.2% of ovine abortions
 mucous, prepuce scrapings, aborted
fetus

4. Leptospirosis
 Leptospira pomona ,Leptospira
hardjobovis
 5 months pregnant
 Infected urine, uterine fluids, fetal
materials
 Abortion, premature birth
 Affects kidneys too

5. Brucellosis
 contagious abortion
 Brucella abortus
 undulant fever in humans
 Unboiled milk,improperly cooked meat
 Horizontal and vertical transmission
 Brucella melitensis
 Screening

6. Contagious Equine Metritis(CEM)
 Taylorella equigenitalis
 true venereal pathogen
 infects healthy mares
 Thoroughbred horses
 Rx:Chlorhexidine, nitrofurazone

7. Bacterial endometritis
 Streptococcus zooepidemicus
 Escherichia coli (also Enterobacter
spp.)
 Pseudomonas aeruginosa
 Klebsiella pneumoniae
 Klebsiella and Pseudomonas:
 joints,respiratory,skin

8. Listeriosis
 Listeria monocytogenes,circling
 placentitis ,fetal septicemia
 Spoiled silage
 Last trimester
 Zoonotic
 2-3days,autolysed

9. Salmonellosis
 Salmonella abortus ovis ,S dublin, S
typhimurium, S arizona
 autolyzed and emphysematous
 abomasal contents, fetal tissues,
uterine fluids,dams' faeces.

10. Miscellaneous bacteria
 Actinomyces pyogenes
 Coxiella burnetii
 Mycoplasma spp,Histophilus somni
 Chlamydia

11. Other causes
 Trichomoniasis, Neospora caninum
 BVD, IBR
 Gonorrhea
 AIDS
 Syphilis
 Heat stress
 Toxic
agents:nitrates~0.55%,ergot,mycotoxi
ns

12. References
 www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/
498659/reproductive-system-
disease/76015/Trichomoniasis
 http://www.moredun.org.uk/research/r
esearch-@-moredun/reproductive-
diseases
 http://animalscience-
old.tamu.edu/beef-skillathon/pdf/beef-
reproductive-diseases-in-cattle.pdf

13. Thank you