A study was carried out to determine the prevalence, species composition and worm burden of abomasal nematodes of small ruminants of Ogaden region slaughtered at Elfora export abattoir. A total of 196 abomasums of animals (114 sheep and 82 goats) were examined according to standard procedures. An overall prevalence rate of 91.2% and 82.9% Haemonchus species was recorded in sheep and goats, resp...

Out of 92 donkeys examined for gastrointestinal parasites, 90 animals were found infected by one or more gastrointestinal parasites with an overall prevalence rate of 97.78%. The distributions of the recovered parasites in the different parts of the body were as follows: stomach, 92.4%, small intestine, 19.6%, caecum, 88%, colon, 80.4%, rectum, 73.9%, and cranial mesenteric artery, 64.1%. A sig...

Helminth parasites were collected from 2 bushbuck, Tragelaphus scriptus, 2 red duiker, Cephalophus natalensis, 1 oribi, Ourebia ourebi, and 4 reedbuck, Redunca arundinum, that died or were culled in various parts of Natal. One trematode genus, 1 cestode genus and 12 nematode species were recovered. Haemonchus contortus. Ostertagia harrisi, Trichostrongylus capricola, Trichostrongylus vitrinus, ...

inhabitants of 4 districts in the city of kermanshah, the capital of province, living under various socio- economic conditions, were examined for infection with intestinal helminthiasis. two of these districts were close to and the other two far from a small stream running through the city and serving as an unsanitary sewage system. a total of 889 persons in different sex and age groups from th...

background: the aim of this study was to verify the occurrence of intestinal parasitic infections in human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) patients in iran in comparison with non-hiv individuals. methods: a total of hiv+/aids patients (group i) and 1220 clinically healthy individuals (group ii) were submitted to coproparasitological examination from 2003 t...

The change of name of a human parasite is not a matter which is likely to provoke much enthusiasm in the minds of most medical men. 1 hope, however, that, for members of the Indian .Medical Service, there may be, in the present instance, at least some compensating satisfaction in the feeling that there is, as I hope to show, definite proof that the correct name of the parasite, at present known...

BACKGROUNDS Genus Trichostrongylus (Nematoda: Trichostrongylidae) is one of the most important zoonotic nematodes with wide geographic distribution in the world. The purpose of the present study was to describe morphological and morphometrical characteristics of male Trichostrongylus species, currently prevalent in domestic ruminants of Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran. METHODS Gastro-intes...

INTRODUCTION Nematodes of Trichostrongylus genus are mainly parasites of herbivores, although sporadic human infections have been reported in many countries. OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency and seasonality of Trichostrongylus spp. infection in individuals attended at a public clinical laboratory. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fecal samples of 9,283 individuals were evaluated by spontaneous sedi...

Trichostrongylus eggs observed in cellophane-thick smears are difficult, in practice, to distinguish from hookworm eggs. In order to overcome these limitations, a molecular approach was conducted. A Trichostrongylus colubriformis adult worm was obtained from a human in Laos, which was identified morphologically. ITS-1 sequence of this worm was determined, and found to be most similar with that ...