HELMINTHIC INFECTION IN DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF GOATS IN SLAUGHTERHOUSE, MANFALOUT, ASSIUT GOVERNORATE, EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Departments of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aswan University

2 Aswan Governorate and Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University

Abstract

A total of 90 goats digestive tracts were collected between May 2018 and end of September
2019 from private public abattoir in Beni-Adi (Manfalout) and examined for helminthes. They
were Fasciola hepatica & F. gigantica 40%, Moniezia expansa (6.7%), Avitellina centripunctata
(6.7%), Haemonchus spp. (16.7%), Trichostrongylus axei (10%), Ostertagia ostertagia
(6.7%), Oe-sophagostomum venulosum (10%), Skrjabinema ovis (10%) and 2 larval cestodes,
Cysticercus tenuicollis (20%), and hydatid cyst (6.7%). Most of these parasites are zononosis.

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