Pattern of Occurrence of Gastrointestinal Strongylosis in an Organized Caprine Farm of Wayanad district, Kerala, South India

Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Helminthes among Goats in and around Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

“…trematodes, cestodes and nematodes at 37.74%, 32.58% and 36.45%, respectively (Table 1and Figure 2). Similar findings were also recorded by Gaherwal et al, (2016), Sanalkumar et al, (2017) and Jena et al, (2108). In rainy season, the higher prevalence of gastrointestinal helminths can be accredited to a number of favorable climatic conditions such as high relative humidity, rainfall, soil salinity, ambient temperature.…”

“…This higher prevalence of gastrointestinal helminths is in accordance with other workers in India (Velusamy et al, 2015;Molla and Bandyopadhyay, 2016;Sanalkumar, 2017 andJena et al, 2018) and abroad (Raza et al, 2014;Yeasmin et al, 2015, Ahmed et al, 2017and Dabasa et al, 2017, in different climatic conditions. Nematodes were recorded to be of highest prevalence (62.37%) followed by trematodes (56.02%) and cestodes (47.63%) (Table 1 and Figure 1).…”