Lower Respiratory Tract Diseases

A clinician can only rarely be sure of the etiology of lung disease in a particular live goat. To make a more specific diagnosis than “pneumonia,” it is necessary to rely on the history of this or nearby herds or to await the proclama­tions of a microbiologist or pathologist (Ojo 1977). The eti­ology of pneumonia is usually multifactorial, and treatment often precedes diagnosis. A general discussion of therapy and prophylaxis for pneumonia, then, can be found follow­ing the discussion of etiologic agents.