Prevalence of parasites and morph-metric measurements of Fasciola hepatica in the Buffaloes at Lalkurti slaughter house Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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Abdul Mateen, Usman Ahmad, Farhana Riaz Chaudary

Abstract

To record the prevalence of parasites in the buffaloes at Lalkurti slaughter house, Rawalpindi was carried out at weekly intervals from October 2013 to March 2014. Postmortem examination of 90 slaughtered buffaloes was carried out and pancreatic ducts, lungs, esophagus and livers were checked for the presence of the parasites. The parasitic burden on esophagus, pancreatic duct, liver and total parasites were 11.11%, 4.44%, 4.44% and 20% respectively. Morphometric measurements were taken for the identification of Fasciola hepatica. The Fasciola hepatica had body length (32mm to 42mm), body width (9mm to13mm), cone length (2mm to 4mm), cone width (2mm to 4mm), distance between anterior to ventral sucker (3mm to 5mm), distance between oral sucker to ventral sucker (2mm to 4mm), distance between ventral sucker to posterior (27mm to 39mm), Testis length (16mm to 22mm). The Fasciola hepatica collected from Rawalpindi of Pakistan who had a morphological similarity with Egypt and Iran. It was noticed that a higher chanced to find out Fasciola was recorded in older and female buffaloes than in youngsters and males. These buffaloes brought from areas which was very close to water. This proved that water played a major role in the transference of fasciolosis infection.


Keywords: Buffaloes; Economic losses; Fasciolosis; Morph-metric measurements; Prevalence


http://dx.doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2024.130042

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