Gastrointestinal helminth infections of dairy goats in Slovakia

The aim of this study was to identify the most common gastrointestinal (GI) parasites in flocks of dairy goats on 30 farms in Slovakia. A total of 944 adult goats were examined during the pasturing seasons for 2014 – 2016. Eggs from one or more species of gastrointestinal parasites were identified i...

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Published inHelminthologia Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 211 - 217
Main Authors Babják, M., Königová, A., Urda-Dolinská, M., Várady, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Heidelberg De Gruyter Open 01.09.2017
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Sciendo
Subjects
Caprinae
Dairy farms
Eggs
Farms
gastrointestinal nematodes
Goats
Larvae
Nematodes
Parasites
Slovakia
Slovakia
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Summary:The aim of this study was to identify the most common gastrointestinal (GI) parasites in flocks of dairy goats on 30 farms in Slovakia. A total of 944 adult goats were examined during the pasturing seasons for 2014 – 2016. Eggs from one or more species of gastrointestinal parasites were identified in 906 of the samples (95.90 %). Strongyle eggs were present in most of the samples (92.00 %), followed by (14.05 %), spp. (7.84 %), spp. (3.98 %), and spp. (2.65 %). The counts of strongyle eggs per gram of faeces ranged from 0 to 11 000. Subsamples from each farm were used to prepare faecal coprocultures to identify the genera of the nematodes. Third-stage larvae of spp. (100 %) and spp. (96.60 %) were present on most of the farms, followed by spp./ (86.60 %) and (76.60 %). spp. were the dominant genera on 60 % of the farms.
ISSN:0440-6605
1336-9083
DOI:10.1515/helm-2017-0027