The adverse effects of parasitic gastrointestinal diseases on poultry production are enormous, especially where birds kept under extensive or semi-intensive systems, but the rarely recognized as primary problems except during necropsy examinations. A two-year longitudinal cohort prospective study was conducted from October 2018 to September 2020 determine prevalence and diagnostic features in V...

The faunas of parasitic helminths and arthropods of 87 Sherman's fox squirrels (Sciurus niger shermani) and 32 Big Cypress fox squirrels (Sciurus niger avicennia) collected from Florida (USA) over a 6-yr period (1988 to 1993) were compared. One acanthocephalan, one cestode, nine nematodes, one flea, three sucking lice, three mites, one tick, and one dipteran larva were identified. Citellinema b...

In Pakistan, parasitic infections are among major constraints to animal production. Gastro-intestinal (GI) parasites cause huge economic losses (direct or indirect) to livestock. In Pakistan, distribution and effect of GI parasitism in sheep is not very well studied. The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of GI parasites in sheep population of Sialkot district, Punjab, Paki...

The helminths of 77 nyala, Tragelaphus angasii, from 4 game reserves in Natal, were collected, counted and identified. Ten nematode species and 4 nematode genera, a trematode species and paramphistomes, and 2 cestode genera were recovered from the antelope. Of these, a Cooperia rotundispiculum race, Gaigeria pachyscelis, a Gongylonema sp., Haemonchus vegliai, Impalaia tuberculata, an Oesophagos...

Between July 2005 and November 2006 the gastro-intestinal helminths of 15 Helmeted guineafowls and a single Crested guineafowl from Musina, Limpopo Province were examined, and in July and August 2005 helminths were collected from five Helmeted guineafowls from Mokopane in the same province. The acanthocephalan Mediorhynchus gallinarum, the cestodes Abuladzugnia gutterae, Davainea nana, Hymenole...

A total of 79 chickens were randomly collected from 4 rural localities and processed to detect the presence of helminth parasites and their prevalences. Sixteen helminth species comprising 12 nematode and 4 cestode species were recorded from the 4 localities. Syngamus trachea and Cyathostoma spp. were the only helminth species recovered from the respiratory tract and the rest of the helminth sp...

Thirty years ago Fibiger (4) described experimentally induced papilloma of the forestomachs of rats and mice, and also one transplantable squamous carcinoma in the forestomach of a mouse; these occurred in animals maintained on a diet of white bread and water, and infested with a round worm, Gongylonema neoplasticurn, of which the intermediate host was the cockroach. Fibiger's experiments invol...

the present study was carried out to determine parasitic infection of sheep with gastrointestinal helminthes in a slaughterhouse in fereidoonkenar city, iran. a total number of 50 sheep were examined from april to september 2008. nematodes were removed from abomasums, small and large intestines, and kept in a.f.a. solution (alcohol, formaldeyde, acetic acid, distilled water, and glycerine) for ...

during an investigation on the endoparasites of rodents in ahvaz, khuzestan province, south west iran, a total of 90 rodents including 14 mus musculus,4 rattus rattus and 72 r. norvegicus were trapped from different localities of ahvaz and its suburbs, during 1998- 2000, using live traps. examination of different tissues, identification of parasite species and serological tests were carried out...