1. Prevalence and Scanning Electron Microscopic Identification of Anoplocephalid Cestodes among Small Ruminants in Senegal.
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Ndom, Mallé, Diop, Gora, Quilichini, Yann, Yanagida, Tetsuya, Ba, Cheikh Tidiane, and Marchand, Bernard
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ANOPLOCEPHALIDAE , *CATTLE parasites , *ANIMAL diseases , *RUMINANTS , *DISEASE prevalence , *SCANNING electron microscopy - Abstract
This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of anoplocephalid cestodes in sheep and goats in Senegal. Intestines of 462 sheep and 48 goats were examined; 47.4% of sheep and 6.2% of goats were infected. The species identified and their prevalence were, among sheep, Avitellina centripunctata 38.7%, Moniezia expansa 15.4%, Stilesia globipunctata 16.7%, and Thysaniezia ovilla 0.4%. Among goats, they were M. expansa 6.2% and T. ovilla 2.1%. The prevalence of all species was not statistically different between dry and rainy seasons. The infections were single or multiple. Indeed, 56.2% of sheep were infected by a single species, 37.4% by two species, and 6.4% by three species. For goats, 66.7% were infected by M. expansa and 33.3% by both M. expansa and T. ovilla. Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) observations of tapeworms show the general diagnosis characters of these species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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