Table 1.
Comparing studies to identify and in some cases rank diseases of cattle that are most important to poverty reduction or to global trade.
| expert opinion—livestock development | expert opinion—researchers | expert opinion—stakeholders | farmer opinion | expert opinion—disease experts | expert opinion—disease experts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| global: livestock diseases important to the poor | global: livestock diseases important to the poor | global: livestock diseases important to the poor | India: livestock diseases important to the poor | global: notifiablea livestock diseases | global: notifiable livestock diseases |
| Perry et al. (importance ranked) | LDG (importance ranked) | GALV med ranked by species | Pilling (importance ranked) | OIE new disease lists (alphabetically rankedb) | OIE list A (alphabetically rankedb) |
| gastro-intestinal helminthsneonatal mortality | tuberculosis trypanosomiasis | haemorrhagic septicaemia | FMD fever | bovine anaplasmosis bovine babesiosis | bovine anaplasmosis bovine babesiosis |
| FMD ectoparasites | helminthiasis FMD | contagious bovine pleuropneumoniae | diarrhoea haemorrhagic | bovine genital campylobacteriosis bovine spongiform encephalopathy | bovine brucellosis bovine cysticercosis |
| liver fluke (fascioliasis) | contagious bovine | Rift Valley fever | septicaemia | bovine tuberculosis | bovine genital campylobacteriosis |
| reproductive disorders nutrition/ micronutrients | pleuropneumonia brucellosis | tick-borne diseases trypanosomiasis | bloat liver fluke | bovine viral diarrhoea contagious bovine | bovine spongiform encephalopathy bovine tuberculosis |
| Toxocara vitulorum | rinderpest | respiratory disease | pleuropneumonia | dermatophilosis | |
| haemorrhagic septicaemia | Johnes | anorexia | enzootic bovine leukosis | enzootic bovine leukosis | |
| Brucella abortus trypanosomosis (tsetse) | helminthiasis ticks | haemorrhagic septicaemia infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/ | haemorrhagic septicaemia infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/ | ||
| mastitis | infectious pustular vulvovaginitis | infectious pustular vulvovaginitis | |||
| rinderpest | lumpy skin disease | malignant catarrhal fever | |||
| Trypanosoma evansi contagious bovine | malignant catarrhal fever theileriosis | theileriosis trichomonosis | |||
| pleuropneumonia diarrhoeal diseases | trichomonosis trypanosomosis (tsetse transmitted) | trypanosomosis (tsetse transmitted) | |||
| heartwater | |||||
| Rift Valley fever | |||||
| babesiosis | |||||
| Theileria annulata | |||||
| black-leg | |||||
| dermatophilosis | |||||
| infectious bovine rhinotracheitis | |||||
| anaplasmosis | |||||
| East Coast fever | |||||
| tick infestation |
aCriteria for notifiability are: potential for international spread; capacity for significant spread within naive populations and zoonotic potential.
bDiseases affecting multiple species are excluded.