Survey on Respiratory Parasites Infection of sheep in Naqade province

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Graduate of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University branch Urmia, Urmia, Iran.

2 Associate professor, Department of pathobiology, Islamic Azad University branch Urmia, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia, Iran

3 Ph.D. Student of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Large animal internal medicine, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

A number of pathogens can cause health problems and even production problems in sheep. In any case, internal parasites can cause the most concern in this regard. Pulmonary parasites are one of the most important and common parasites of small ruminants that lead to lung damage and since the respiratory system is one of the most important tissues in the body and due to the connection Close to other tissues of the body, so damage to this tissue leads to fundamental disorders in animal health and production problems. In this regard, in order to investigate the prevalence of pulmonary parasites in sheep in Naghadeh, we inspected after slaughtering 655 sheep in 18 sampling sessions (3 times a month) from early January 2015 to late June 2016. According to the results, 8.7% of sheep had various pulmonary parasites (Cystocaulus ocreatus 2.9%, dictyocaulus filaria 1.67%, protostrongylus rufescens 0.76%, Hydatid cyste 5.19%). Hydatid cyst is the most common and Protostrongylus rufescens is the rarest respiratory parasite of Naqadeh sheep.

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Journal of Veterinary Laboratory Research
Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 18
November 2021
Pages 165-173

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