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Parasites Dr. Dipa Brahmbhatt VMD, MPH, MS
Parasites Dr. Dipa Brahmbhatt VMD, MPH, MS
Parasites
Dr. Dipa Brahmbhatt VMD, MPH, MS
Objectives
• ID Common endoparasites in small ruminants
• Clinical signs associated with parasites
• Diagnosis
• Treatments
Reading Assignment
Chapter 17: Common Ovine and Caprine
Diseases
Know table 17 -3: Parasites
Key terms
• Fecal flotation
• ELISA
• Baerman technique
• Skin scrapings
• Pre patent period
• Direct life cycle
• Indirect lifecycle
Figure 6-61 Baermann apparatus is used to recover larvae of roundworms from feces, soil, or animal tissues. This apparatus is most
useful in recovering larvae of lungworms.
(Reprinted from Hendrix CM, Robinson E: Diagnostic parasitology for veterinary technicians, ed 3, St Louis, 2006, Mosby.)
Abomasum
Family: Trichostrongyloidea
Haemonchus Contortus
• Haemonchus contortus – barberpole worm/
wire worm PPP: 17 – 21 days
– 1” (25 mm)
– Abomasum of Male bursa RIght
small ruminants
– feeds on blood
– Clinical signs
• anemia, bottle jaw, chronic weight loss
• death
Clinical signs Haemonchus
• ‘bottle jaw’:
hypoproteinemia
and anemia.
• usually late
winter.
Figure 6-34 Characteristic trichostrongyle-type ova of the bovine trichostrongyles. These oval, thin-shelled eggs contain four or more
cells. They measure 70 to 120 µm long. Some of these ova can be identified by their respective genus; however, identification is
usually difficult because mixed infections are common.
(From Hendrix CM, Robinson E: Diagnostic parasitology for veterinary technicians, ed 3, St Louis, 2006, Mosby.)
Adults in the abomasum.
Barberpole worm
PPP: 16 – 23 days
Ostertagia ostertagi
PPP: 1 – 2 weeks
Trichostrongylus Colubriformis
• Hair worm, black scour
worm
• CS: diarrhea, +/-
bottlejaw, dec. weight
gain,
• PPP: 21 days
• ZOONOTIC
• CESTODES
– Monieza expansa
• Not very pathogenic Moniezia expansa,egg. Courtesy of Merial
• PPP: 40 days