The Epidemiology of Calf Coccidiosis (Eimeria spp.) in Poland

Abstract

The field survey has been performed to study the epidemiology of calf coccidiosis in Poland. It was found that the Eimeria spp. coccidia occurred on 93.0 % of the investigated farms. But the highly pathogenic species (E. bovis and E. zuernii) were found on 88.4 % of the investigated farms. Those were also found more frequently in bigger farms (92.3 %) compared to smaller ones (85.1 %). However, the intensity of E. bovis as well as E. zuernii infection remained, in most cases, low -75.4 and 79.8 % or moderate -21.3 and 18.5 %, respectively. The intensity of those infections was, respectively, 3.1x and 1.9x higher in big farms. Conclusion: The Eimeria spp. are very common pathogens in cattle farms in Poland. The highly pathogenic Eimeria occurred more frequently in big rather than in small farms.

Occurrence and diversity of Eimeria species in cattle in Hamedan province, Iran

“…Research performed in other countries has revealed prevalence rates of Eimeria spp. varying from 17.9% to 93% in Poland (Pilarczyk et al 2000;Klockiewicz et al 2007;Pilarczyk et al 2009), 33% in Hungary (Farkas et al 2007), 22.6% and 33.3% in Brazil (Almeida et al 2011;Poscoti-Bruhn et al 2011), 35% to 47.1% in China (Yu et al 2011;Dong et al 2012), 50% in Pakistan (Nisar-Khan et al 2013), 22.7% and 68% in Ethiopia (Abebe et al 2008;Dawid et al 2012), 20%, 68% and 75% in Turkey (Arslan and Tuzer 1998;Cicek et al 2007;Nalbantoglu et al 2008), 29%, 50% and 52% in South Africa (Matjila and Penzhorn 2002), and 35% in Tanzania (Chibunda et al 1997). The rate was reported to be 21.3% and 18% to 50% in the Kurdistan and East-Azerbaijan provinces of Iran (Yakhchali and Gholami 2008;Yakhchali and Zarei 2008;Davoudi et al 2011).…”

Análise descritiva da diarreia em uma coorte de bezerras criadas em sistema de casinhas até cem dias de idade, Município de Piraí, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

“…Em 86 fazendas polonesas a prevalência nos animais investigados foi de 80,1% em bezerros de 3 a 9 meses, 18,2% naqueles de um a três meses e 1,7% entre os com 9 e 18 meses (KLOCKIEWICZ et al, 2007 GRISI, 1984;REBOUÇAS et al, 1994;ALMEIDA et al, 2011;BRUHN et al, 2012) Em estudo realizado por Lima et al (1997) em Minas Gerais com bezerros do nascimento aos 27 meses de vida, os animais começaram a se infectar por helmintos gastrintestinais antes dos 2 meses de idade, e apresentaram período crítico dessas infecções até os 18 meses. Neste estudo, a maior ocorrência de eliminação de ovos se deu nos animais com mais de 45 dias de vida, tendo idade média de 64,9 dias.…”

Species of the Family Eimeriidae (Coccidia, Apicomplexa) Parasitic in Cattle at Dairy Farms in Kyiv and Zhytomyr Regions of Ukraine

“…However, the intensity of E. bovis as well as E. zuernii infection remained, in most cases, low -75.4 and 79.8 %, or moderate -21.3 and 18.5 %, respectively. The intensity of the infections was, respectively, 3.1 and 1.9 times higher in big farms (Klockiewicz et al, 2007). Becker and Frye, 1929 (fi gs 5, 6) Oocysts are ellipsoidal, 18-26 x 3-18 µm in size.…”

“…subspherica, E. bovis, E. zuernii, E. bukidnonensis, E. brasiliensis, E. cylindrica, E. ellipsoidalis, E. canadensis, E. wyomingensis, and E. alabamensis (Mironenko, 2001;Yatusevich, 2006). Th e study of the epidemiology of coccidiosis in Poland (Klockiewicz et al, 2007) showed the occurrence of disease with diff erent association caused by one or a several 12 Eimeria species in infected calves.…”