Original scientific paper

A slaughterhouse study on prevalence of sheep liver helminths in region of Sarajevo

Almedina Zuko ; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sarajevo, Department of parasitology and invasive diseases of animals, Zmaja od Bosne 90, 71 000 Sarajevo
Adnan Hodžić ; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sarajevo, Department of parasitology and invasive diseases of animals, Zmaja od Bosne 90, 71 000 Sarajevo

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of trematodes and cestodoses in slaughtered sheep from the region of Sarajevo.
The study was carried out on a total of 699 indigenous sheep of pramenka breed, of various sex and age. After parasitological section, visual examination and palpation of the liver, the prevalence rate of Fasciola hepatica, Dicrocoelium dendriticum, hydatid cysts of
Echinococcus granulosus and Cisticercus tenuicollis was 54.2%, 74.1%, 22.6% and 12.5%, respectively. The results of this research
indicate that the infestation with these parasitic species and larval forms in slaughtered sheep are present at a high level, which has a
great health and economic importance in the region of Sarajevo.

Keywords

prevalence; helminths; liver; sheep

Hrčak ID:

72575

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72575

Publication date:

15.4.2011.

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