Cross Sectional Epidemiological Investigation on the Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Parasites of Small Ruminants in Sullah Upazilla of Sunamgonj District, Bangladesh

Abstract

| A cross-sectional epidemiological investigation was conducted from February 2014 to July 2014 with the objectives of estimating the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites of small ruminants in Sullah Upazilla of Sunamgonj District, Bangladesh. The study population was comprised of 400 small ruminants (goat and sheep). The whole study area was divided into ten sub groups to facilitate the collection of fecal sample. The study shows various species of helminths suggesting the ambient condition and the nature of sheep and goat rearing system are very favourable for the transmission and existence of the parasite species. Therefore, further broad aspect studies are essential to estimate the impact of gastrointestinal helminths infection on the rural small ruminants of Bangladesh.

Gastrointestinal Helminthic Challenges in Sheep and Goats in Afro-Asian Region: A Review

“…infection is most common and world widely distributed. It has been reported from Bangladesh (Nath et al, 2011;Rahman et al, 2014;Hossain et al, 2015 ), India (Swarnkar and Singh, 2012;Lone et al, 2012;Nagesh and Das, 2013;Brahma et al, 2015;Verma et al, 2017), Korea (Gebeyehu et al, 2013), Sri Lanka (Kandasami et al, 2013), Syria (Almalaik et al, 2008), Nigeria (Owhoeli et al, 2014), Thailand (Worasing et al, 2011), Malaysia (Tan et al, 2017), Ethiopia (Dagnachew et al, 2011;Gizachew et al, 2015).…”

“…remained quite common in sheep and goats during last decade. It has been reported from different parts of Afro-Asian region like India (Sutar et al, 2010;Lone et al, 2012;Khajuria et al, 2013), Pakistan (Farooq et al, 2012), China (Huang et al, 2004), Bangladesh (Rahman et al, 2014;Hossain et al, 2015), Iran (Ali et al, 2011;Khanjari et al, 2014), Thailand (Worasing et al, 2011), Ethiopia Dagnachew et al, 2011;Ibrahim et al, 2014;Gizachew et al, 2014), Tanzania (Mhoma et al, 2011), Zimbabwe (Zvinorova et al, 2016), Kenya (Musotsi et al, 2017). Fasciolosis is responsible for 3.28-4.8 percent of total liver condemnation in ruminants (Ali et al, 2011;Mhoma et al, 2011;Khoramiam et al, 2014).…”

“…The incidences reported in various studies from different places were different. From Pakistan the reported incidence in Sheep was as high as 2.8 to 40 percent (Farooq et al, 2012) against 15.6-29.35 percent in India (Lone et al, 2012;Nagesh and Das, 2013;Nagesh and Das, 2015) and 14.29-46.67 percent in Bangladesh (Rahman et al, 2014;Hossain et al, 2015). The overall prevalence of fasciolosis in sheep and goats in Iran was described to 0.35-22.8 and 0.50-11.4 percent respectively (Ali et al, 2011;Khanjari et al, 2014).…”

“…The condition is very common in small ruminants and has wide distribution. The disease has been reported from Ethiopia Dagnachew et al, 2011), Pakistan (Farooq et al, 2012), India (Swarnkar and Singh 2012;Kandasamy et al, 2013;Brahma et al, 2015), Bangladesh (Hossain et al, 2015), Thailand (Sangvaranond et al, 2010, Turkey (Ozdal et al, 2010), Malaysia (Tan et al, 2017). Choudhary et al (2010) described paramphistomosis as a neglected trematodes disease of ruminants and a significant cause of economic losses.…”

“…The prevalence of moniezial infection in sheep as described by various workers ranged from 0.2 to 30.4 percent (Almalaik et al, 2008;Kenyari et al, 2009;Swarnkar and Singh 2012;Kandasami et al, 2013;Gizachew et al 2015;Ibrahim et al, 2014;Nagesh and Das 2013). In goats, prevalence range described was 0.1-40.34 percent (Almalaik et al, 2008;Kenyari et al, 2009;Worasing et al, 2011;Shaikh et al, 2011;Nath et al, 2011;Rahman et al, 2014;Ibrahim et al, 2014;Hossain et al, 2015;Brahma et al, 2015;Tan et al, 2017;Verma et al, 2017;Hassan et al, 2019). Sissay et al (2008) reported Moniezia prevalence as high as 61 and 53 percent in Sheep and Goats respectively from Ethiopia.…”