TABLE 1:
Incidence of causes of ovine and caprine abortion based on submissions in The Netherlands in the lambing season 2012–2013
| Goat | Sheep | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incidence in submissions (%) | Incidence in submissions (#) | Submissions with placenta | Incidence in submissions (%) | Incidence in submissions (#) | Submissions with placenta | |
| Arcanobacterium pluranimalium | 1.8 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Campylobacter spp. | 19.3 | 11 | 11 | |||
| Chlamydia spp | 16.7 | 4 | 4 | 12.3 | 7 | 7 |
| Escherichia coli | 5.3 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Listeria ivanovii | 1.8 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Listeria monocytogenes | 20.8 | 5 | 3 | 1.8 | 1 | 0 |
| Salmonella Typhimurium | 4.2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Toxoplasma gondii | 16.7 | 4 | 2 | 14.0 | 8 | 6 |
| Yersinia enterocolitica | 3.5 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | 4.2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Fetal malformation | 8.8 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Placentitis | 4.2 | 1 | 1 | 10.5 | 6 | 6 |
| No diagnosis | 33.3 | 8 | 4 | 26.3 | 15 | 8 |
| Autolysis | 37.5 | 3 | 0 | 66.7 | 10 | 8 |
| Mummification | 12.5 | 1 | 0 | 6.7 | 1 | 0 |
| Total* | 100.0 | 24 | 14 | 105.0* | 57 | 42 |
*Total incidence per submission can be above 100 per cent because in some cases, in the same submission, more than one possible cause of abortion was found