Management and control of an outbreak of fatal truamatic myiasis due to Chrysomya bezziana in a herd of Persian Fallow Deer (Dama dama mesopotamica)

Abstract

Cutaneous myiasis caused by the Chrysomya bezziana in Asian and African countries is common in wild and domestic mammals. A herd of Persian fallow deer (n=80, consisting of adult and young male and female animals) with an average age range of 3 months to 6 years was viewed. Observed were 40 deaths putting the heard near to extinction. The animals were found with traumatic cutaneous wounds mostly in one ear, the eyes and head as well as the ventral part of the neck. The ears were necrotised and could no longer remain upright; the wounds were full of maggots of different sizes and stages of development. Based on morphological features, the collected larvae were examined by a central Khuzestan veterinary laboratory and identified as C. bezziana larvae. This is the first ever occurrence of C. bezziana that caused such a population reduction of these wonderful animals in a herd of Persian fallow deer held under the supervision of Iranian Nature Preservation Organization and kept at Helveh Park in Shush county (East-South of Iran) where original ecology and its treatment and control of myiasis have been discussed. This paper is apparently the first report of an infestation of cutaneous myiasis due to C. bezziana in Persian fallow deer. Also we report high infestation Rhipicephalus microplus as an important ectoparasite of these Persian fallow deer that has been never discussed before.

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“…Due to this condition, six animals were captured (3 males, 3 females) in order to begin the species' conservation at the Dasht-e-Naz (near the southern shore of the Caspian Sea) and the Karkheh Wildlife Refuges. One of the males was sent to Germany in 1964 as part of the European captivity breeding program [3]- [5].…”

Introduced deer and their potential role in disease transmission to livestock in Australia

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Myiasis pada Ruminansia: Diagnosis, Manajemen Terapi dan Pencegahan

“…Terjadinya peningkatan kejadian penyakit kasus myiasis pada 80 ekor Persian fallow deer (Dama dama mesopotamica) yang disebabkan Chrysomya bezziana di Iran menunjukkan 40 ekor mengalami kematian. Hewan tersebut itu sebagian besar mengalami luka kulit traumatis pada bagian telinga, mata, kepala dan juga leher bagian ventral (Mombeni et al, 2014). Kejadian dan derajat keparahan myiasis tergantung pada kondisi daerah tersebut seperti distribusi, kepadatan ternak dan kondisi iklim.…”