Prevalence of brain lesions in sheep slaughtered at Mosul area during 2012-2013

Abstract EN

The present study revealed the prevalence and pathology of sheep brain (male and female).

One handred brain samples were obtained randomly from Mosul animal slaughter house and butcher shops since October 2012 to August 2013 from animals with and without nervous signs.

The main gross lesions were edema which accounted 53 % of the cases, congestion 51 %, hemorrhage 20 % and 3 % cyst of coenurous cerebralis.

The major lesions were observed by histopathological examination of three different areas of the brain (cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla oblongata) in each case.

Lesions include vascular change, neuronal degeneration, necrosis, inflammatory change, gliosis, neuronophagia, amyloid deposition.

Three cases revealed the presence of the coenurous cerebralis and two cases were abscesses and one case showed the presence of Sarcocystis SPP.