Epidemiology of digestive parasites in buffaloes from Romania

Digestive parasites are a constraint on buffalo productivity. Data regarding the prevalence of parasitic diseases in buffaloes reported developed countries, but Romania, they missing. The aim this study was to evaluate internal raised households and farms from Romania. Faeces samples were collected 180 different ages (calves: 0-6 months; juveniles: 6-30 adults:> 30 months). faecal processed by coproparasitological methods: flotation, sedimentation, McMaster. detected 57.2% buffaloes. Most had single species infection(42.2%) (p<0.001), only 15.0% infection with 2 (14.5%) or 3 (0.6%) parasites. digestive higher calves (68.8%) juveniles (76.9%) compared adults (19.6%) (p<0.001). Eimeria spp. (43.3%), Buxtonella sulcata(1.7%), Fasciola hepatica(4.4%), Paramphistomum cervi(2.8%), Moniezia (0.6%), Toxocara vitulorum (11.7%), strongyles (3.3%), Strongyloides papillosus (5.0%), Capillaria identified. T. vitulorumwerethe most prevalent parasitesin juveniles(p<0.001). F. hepatica parasite adults.Eimeria S. infections diagnosed farmed buffaloes, (p>0.05) than household B. sulcata, spp., Papillosus young while adults. OPG Age risk factor identified for hepatica.