author(s)
Ajay S Satbige, Keneisezo Kuotsu, NA Patil, Vivek R Kasaralikar, RG Bijurkar and Sandeep H

abstract
The present study was carried out to detect the prevalence of Bovine herpes virus-1 among cattle in Bidar. A total of 321 samples, comprising of serum, nasal & ocular samples were collected from a total of 53 and 54 cattle maintained in organized and un-organized farms during the period of January 2016 to January 2017 in Bidar, 159 samples were collected from the organized farm, which included serum (n=53), nasal (n=53) and ocular (n=53) samples. The remaining 162 out of 321 samples were collected from the un-organized farm, which included serum (n=54), nasal (n=54) and ocular (n=54) samples. The gI gene specific Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) detected 47.16 percent (25/53), 49.05 percent (26/53) and 35.84 percent (19/53) as positive in serum, nasal and ocular samples respectively in the organized farm and in the un-organized farm the positivity was 44.44 percent (24/54), 14.81 percent (8/54), 11.11 percent (6/54) in serum, nasal and ocular samples respectively. The overall percent positivity as based on the cattle samples tested in the organized farm was 40.70 percent and in the un-organized farm it was 23.22 percent.