Worldwide, 2-10% of human population is infested with pubic lice which are mostly found in the hair of pubic area, occasionally under the armpits, in the beard or mustache and on the eyebrows and eyelashes. They are usually transmitted through sexual contact or through toilet seats and bedding material. A twenty-year-old boy suffering from severe itching in the genital region during night hours submitted the lice for their identification in Department of Veterinary Parasitology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Mhow. These lice were identified as
A total of 445 faecal samples and 128 rumens of sheep collected from Slaughter house, Mhow (Madhya Pradesh) were examined for a period of 1 year from February 2011 to January 2012. Faecal sample examination based, incidence of amphistomes was found to be 23.37% from the study area. The incidence of amphistomes was significantly higher ( < 0.01) during summer (36.75%) than winter (27.74%) and monsoon (3.52%). Age-wise, non-significantly higher infection was observed in ≥1 year-old animals (23.61%) than <1 year-old animals (23.11%). Non-significantly higher rate of infection was recorded in case of females (25.63%) than that of males (19.64%). Out of 128, 49 (38.28%) rumens were found positive for amphistomes. The prevalence of (27.34%) was found to be significantly ( < 0.01) higher than (10.94%).
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