Gastrointestinal parasitic infections in Indian Gaddi (goat) breed bucks: clinical, hemato-biochemical, parasitological and chemotherapeutic studies

Abstract

The present study was envisaged with an aim to evaluate gastrointestinal parasitic infections in a herd of conserved Gaddi (goat) breed bucks (6-9 months of age) kept on semi-intensive feeding management. The individuals (n = 20) representing the herd were selected and divided into two groups; group I (n = 10), clinically ill and group II (n = 10), sub clinically infected individuals. The clinical examination revealed anemia, emaciation and rise in body temperature of the individuals of group I as compared to group II. The detailed copro-parasitological examination and copro-culture revealed the presence of eggs of and larvae of species, respectively in the fecal samples of both clinically and sub clinically infected individuals. The hemato-biochemical parameters proved vital indicators of the health of group I individuals and exhibited decline in the values of hemoglobin, packed cell volume and total erythrocyte count as compared to group II. Significant ( < 0.05) hypoproteinemia, hypoalbuminemia, hypoglycemia and increased levels of alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase were observed in infected individuals as compared to treated ones. The detailed parasitological, hemato-biochemical observations and clinical findings elucidated and supported the presence of concurrent gastrointestinal parasitism in the herd. The significant improvement was observed in the health status of the herd after 1 month of the therapeutic management, which was carried out using a combination of fenbendazole and praziquantel in both clinically and sub clinically infected individuals.

Correlates of Resistance to Gastro-Intestinal Parasites Infection in South African Communal Indigenous Goat Populations

“…Furthermore, the hematological parameters were also lower in the HFEC phenotype compared to the uninfected group and LFEC phenotype, attributed to a greater load of GIPs sucking a substantial amount of blood, therefore, lowering these parameters. These findings accord with previous reports that the higher GIP infection intensity especially H. contortus leads to lower PCV (Ameen et al, 2010;Saddiqi et al, 2010;Moudgil et al, 2017) and Hgb concentration (Audu et al, 2018) in animals. Noteworthy, H. contortus infection in West African Dwarf goats resulted in a normochromic normocytic anemia attributed to blood loss caused by this GIP (Ameen et al, 2010).…”

“…However, similar results had been previously reported, where there was a positive relationship between resistance to different GIPs in Nigerian West African Dwarf goats (Behnke et al, 2006) and INRA sheep (Gruner et al, 2003). Major effects of higher GIP infections on animals are severe anemia (Burden et al, 2010) along with other hematological (Rasool et al, 1995) and biochemical disturbances (Moudgil et al, 2017). Furthermore, the hematological parameters were also lower in the HFEC phenotype compared to the uninfected group and LFEC phenotype, attributed to a greater load of GIPs sucking a substantial amount of blood, therefore, lowering these parameters.…”

Taxonomic justification of the pathogenic strongylid infecting the Arabian camel Camelus dromedarius as Haemonchus longistipes by morphological and molecular phylogeny

“…Haemonchus spp. is one of the major species that cause economic losses in ruminant livestock worldwide (17, 23). Haemonchus longistipes is a principal parasite of camels for which some morphological as well as molecular data are missing, both in general and with particular pertinence to Saudi Arabia (25).…”

Molecular Differentiation of Haemonchus longistipes Railliet & Henry, 1909 (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) of Female Morphotypes and Male Worms Infecting the Dromedary Camelus dromedarius Using RAPD Technique

“…Haemonchus spp. are major species that cause economic losses in ruminants' livestock worldwide (Lichtenfels et al, 1994;Moudgil et al, 2017).…”