Biological traits of Katahdin sheep selected for footrot resistance
Samaneh Azarpajouh
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Biological traits of Katahdin sheep selected for footrot resistance

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Footrot is a highly contagious disease affecting the feet of hoofed animals and has significant economic and animal welfare impacts on the small ruminant livestock industry. Footrot in sheep and goats is caused mainly by infection with bacteria Dichelobacter nodosus and Fusobacterium necrophorum. The severity of footrot depends on an interaction of the environmental, bacterial, and host factors involved in different outbreaks. In groups of small ruminants in the same environment, there will be animals which are highly susceptible, partly susceptible, or resistant. It is well known that for man...