Trichomonas foetus infection in a beef herd

Authors: Bruere SN
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 30, Issue 1-2, pp 15-16, Jan 1982
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Cattle, Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant
Subject Terms: Reproduction, Protozoa, Reproduction - female, Reproduction - male, Disease/defect, Infectious disease, Venereal disease
Article class: Correspondence

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Abstract: Trichomoniasis has for many years been recognised as a bovine venereal disease. The last New Zealand case reported was in 1972. A recent investigation of a low reproductive performance problem in a beef herd in the Tokomaru Bay area of the East Coast has again confirmed the disease`s continued presence. This brief report is to remind veterinarians of the current existence of New Zealand bovine trichomoniasis and to describe methods of attempted control. An infertility problem was first investigated in the autumn of 1981 when a group of 180 two-and-a-half year old Angus heifers was pregnancy tested…

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