THE HAEMOGRAM OF ENTERITIS IN KIDS AT EL-GASSIM

The present study was perormed on 54 kids, one day to two months old. Animals were of the native Saudi arabian breed, and belonged to one of the private breeding farms at El-Gassim Emarah. Diarrhoea, emaciation and weakness was excisted in 77.78% of the examined animals while the rest proved to be clinically and labortory healthy. The diseased animals were divided into three groups according to the severity and isolated causes of the disease. The clinical signs were observed and recorded. Eimeria spp < /em>. appeared to be the most important cause of enteritis among the studied animals. At least three species of Eimeria were recovered from each diseased case. Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella newp < em>oort were reported to be associated with some outbreaks of the disease in the animals. In the diarrhoeic kids suffering from infection that usually run an acute course, excessive loss of body fluids was accompanied by haemoconcentration. Prominent elevation was recorded in the values of PCV, Hb and RBCs count. Leucocytosis was a prominent feature that accompanied by neutrophilia and eosinophilia.
and eosinophili Decrease in lymphocytes percent was detected among animals of the diarrhoeic groups.