Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31727/m.19.1.4
The most important parasites of ruminants from the Travnik area
Zijad Konjalić
Adnan Jažić
; Katedra za paraziotologiju i invazione bolesti, Veterinarski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Almedina Zuko
; Katedra za paraziotologiju i invazione bolesti, Veterinarski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Abstract
On the basis of parasitological researches of internal organs and striated muscles 1,939 ruminants (1,006 calves, 182 beef cattle, 538 cattle and 213 sheep) of individual breeding on the region of the of Travnik, 39.65 % of the animals was determined the presence of parasitic species of the Trematoda class and larval forms of the parasite of the Eucestoda class. Two species of trematode Fasciola hepatica and Dicrocoelium dendriticum and two larval forms of cestode Echinococcus polymorphus (species Echinococcus granulosus) and Cysticercus bovis (species Taenia saginata) were found. The highest total percentage of infestation of 29.55 % was registered for cysts of Echinococcus polymorphus the most commonly found in the liver and lungs, and occasionally are located on the heart, spleen and kidney. Half less has been established Dicrocoelium dendriticum 15,57 %, then Fasciola hepatica of 8,45% and the lowest was Cysticercus bovis, only 0.41%.
Keywords
parasites; ruminants; trematoda; cestoda
Hrčak ID:
176153
URI
Publication date:
21.2.2017.
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