Prevalence of fascioliasis (liver flukes) infection in cattle and buffaloes slaughtered at the municipal abattoir of El-Kharga, Egypt.

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Author	Elshraway, Nagwa T. Mahmoud, Wafaa G.
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	Aim:The main objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of fascioliasis infections in cattle and buffaloes, slaughtered in El-Kharga city slaughterhouse at New Valley Governorate.Materials and Methods:The slaughtered animals were daily inspected for liver fascioliasis allover 2016. Macroscopic fascioliasis was detected from a total of 2251 basing on animals specie, sex, season, and Fasciola spp. in addition to microscopic examination of blood, fecal samples which collected from female cattle and buffalo (50 each).Results:The total prevalence rate of Fasciola sp. infection occurs in the study area were about 695/2251 (30.88%) from the total cattle and bovine slaughtered carcasses. The incidence of fascioliasis was 4/12 (33.33%) and 678/2200 (30.82%) for females and males cattle carcasses, respectively, while the infection rate in buffalo carcasses was 1/4 (25.00%) and 12/35 (34.29%) for females and males buffalo carcasses, respectively.Conclusion:The moderate fasciolosis infection in cattle and buffaloes slaughtered at the municipal abattoir of El-Kharga, Egypt. The highest fascioliasis infection was recorded during winter and autumn. It constitutes a major cause of economic losses at El-Kharga abattoir and threat public health.
ISSN	09728988
Journal	Veterinary World
Volume Number	10
PubMed Central reference number	PMC5591478
Issue Number	8
PubMed reference number	28919682
e-ISSN	22310916
DOI	10.14202/vetworld.2017.914-917
Language	English
Publisher	Veterinary World
Publisher Date	2017-08-13
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Copyright: © Elshraway and Mahmoud.
Subject Keyword	Fasciola gigantica Fasciola hepatica foodborne disease liver fluke slaughterhouse snails zoonosis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Veterinary