Meta-analysis of the prevalence of livestock diseases in North Eastern Region of India

Nagendra Nath Barman; Sharanagouda S Patil; Rashmi Kurli; Pankaj Deka; Durlav Prasad Bora; Giti Deka; Kempanahalli M Ranjitha; Channappagowda Shivaranjini; Parimal Roy; Kuralayanapalya P Suresh

doi:10.14202/vetworld.2020.80-91

Meta-analysis of the prevalence of livestock diseases in North Eastern Region of India

Vet World. 2020 Jan;13(1):80-91. doi: 10.14202/vetworld.2020.80-91. Epub 2020 Jan 11.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary Microbiology, College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agriculture University, Guwahati, Assam, India.
² Department of Virology, ICAR-National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
³ Department of Spatial Epidemiology, ICAR-National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
⁴ Director, ICAR-National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Abstract

Aim: The study aimed to determine the overall prevalence of livestock diseases in North Eastern Region (NER) of India, through a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data.

Materials and methods: The articles used for the study were retrieved from PubMed, J-Gate Plus, Indian Journals, and Google scholar, R open-source scripting software 3.4.3. Metafor, Meta. The Chi-square test was conducted to assess for the heterogeneity, forest plot (confidence interval [CI] plot) is a method utilized to present the results of meta-analysis, displaying effect estimate and their CIs for each study were used for searching and retrieval of livestock diseases prevalence data in India using a search strategy combining keywords and related database-specific subject terms from 2008 to 2017 in English only.

Results: The prevalence of various livestock diseases are foot-and-mouth disease (21%), bluetongue (28%), brucellosis in bovine (17%), brucellosis in caprine (2%), brucellosis in porcine (18%), brucellosis in sheep and goat (3%), babesiosis (6%), theileriosis (26%), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (1%), porcine cysticercosis (6%), classical swine fever (31%), Porcine circovirus (43%), and Peste des petits ruminants (15%). This information helps policymakers to take appropriate measures to reduce the disease burden.

Conclusion: This study indicates that the overall prevalence of various livestock diseases in NER of India.

Keywords: North Eastern regions; Peste des petits ruminants; Porcine circovirus; babesiosis; brucellosis; classical swine fever; foot-and-mouth disease; forest plot; livestock; meta-analysis; porcine cysticercosis; porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome; prevalence; seroprevalence; theileriosis.