Clinical Considerations of Bovine Coccidiosis

Abstract

As bovine practitioners we probably have a poorer understanding of the protozoan diseases than of diseases of bacterial or viral etiology. This, despite the fact that coccidiosis, the most common of the protozoan diseases, is one of the major diseases of feedlot cattle. One survey indicated that coccidiosis costs an average of $54.25 per infected animal. In addition to the economic losses
associated with weight loss, treatment cost and death of the acutely involved animal there are significant, more subtle
costs associated with the oft unrecognized subclinical form of the disease. This paper will address both forms of the
disease.