Asokkumar, MGunaseelan, LRamesh, STANUVAS2020-06-162020-06-162013-10http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810147661TNV_SIJVS_2013_1(2)12-14Rabies is a deadly disease caused by virus belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae and is highly fatal disease of viral etiology affecting the nervous system of all warm-blooded animals on invasion. It is of great importance as a zoonosis and predominantly a disease of carnivores posing serious threat to man and animals. Productive animals get infected mainly through bite of a rabid dog. Rabies virus is transmitted primarily through the saliva of infected animals, most commonly through bite. The ultrastructure of rabies can be viewed through electron microscope as a bullet shaped structure with an average diameter of 75 nm and a length of 100-300 nm. The electron microscopical traits allow the virus particles to be identification up to the family or genus level. The direct fluorescent antibody test (FAT) is one of the most accurate microscopic tests available as gold standard test for diagnosis of rabies (WHO, TRS 931). Rabies is always fatal once clinical symptoms are exhibited with reports of rabies in goats being sporadic; however the furious form of rabies appears to be more common. The present paper reports a case of rabies in goat.enVeterinary ScienceArticle