Pathological Affections of Lungs in Slaughtered Cattle and Buffaloes at Chittagong Metropolitan Area, Bangladesh

| The study was carried out to examine the pathological lesions in lungs of slaughtered cattle and buffalo carcasses in Chittagong Metropolitan area. A total of 882 (660 cattle and 222 buffalo) were examined in three different slaughterhouse where 128 (14.51%) cases were found with different pathological lesions in lungs. Among 128 (cattle 105 and buffalo 23) cases with lung lesions, the frequency of hydatid cyst was significantly (P< 0.05) higher in cattle (58.10%) than in buffaloes (34.78%), whereas the frequency of fibrous nodule (8.69%) and hemorrhages (17.39%) were significantly higher in buffalo lungs than cattle (1.9% and 0.06%). Different factors including the geographical and ecological aspects of the animal sources might have played significant role in the prevalence and comparative frequency of pathological lesions of lungs in cattle and buffaloes.