The Occurrence of Gastrointestinal and Haemo parasites of cattle in Jos of Plateau State, Nigeria

Abstract

Prevalence of haemoparasites and gastrointestinal parasites of cattle in Bassa local government area of Plateau State was carried out. The study showed that haemoparasites was less prevalence (21.70%) compared to gastrointestinal parasites (53.77%). Nine parasites were encountered among which Eimeria species has the highest prevalence of 26.42% followed by Oesophagostuma radiatum with 18.87%, while Strongyloides, Syngamus laryngeus and Babesia bigemina has the least prevalence with 0.94%.The mean PCV of 35.13±5.2 (ranges from 24% to 54%) and 35.02±4.9 (ranges from 23% to 50%) for animals with one or more parasites or non-parasites respectively showed no significant difference (P<0.5). There was a high prevalence observed in females (44.34%) than males (40.57%) and high in adults compared to young animals. There was a high prevalence in white Fulani than other breeds which is due to the fact that white Fulani is the most common breed of cattle in the study area. White Fulani recorded the highest prevalence of 24.53% followed by Red Fulani with 21.70% and Sokoto Gudali with 19.81%, while N'dama and Muturu had least the prevalence of 9.43% each which shows a significant difference (P<0.05) between the breed of animals.

Prevalence and Predictors of Gastrointestinal Parasitic infection among Agro-Pastoral Cattle Herds in Ibarapa, Oyo State, southwestern Nigeria

“…This could be as a result of the traditional husbandry method used in rearing the cattle (Adejinmi and Harrison, 1997). Reports from different parts of Nigeria also showed the prevalence of GIP ranging from 34.9% to 82.24% (Afolabi et al, 2007;Pam et al, 2013;Sylvia et al, 2015;Okike-Osisiogu et al, 2016;Takeet et al, 2016;Abah and Ebong, 2017;Adelakun and Akande, 2018). High prevalence rates of GIP have also been reported from other countries including Colombian Northeastern Mountain (50.5%) (Pinilla León et al, 2019), Pakistan (64.6%) (Rafiullah et al, 2011) and Ghana (95.5%) (Squire et al, 2013).…”

“…3 million (Umar, 2007;Umar et al, 2008;Tibi and Aphunu, 2010) with 80% of this managed by the pastoralists (Okoli et al, 2012) who practice extensive production system which is the traditional method of grazing cattle in Africa (Kanyari et al, 2009). Breeds of cattle indigenous to Nigeria are the White Fulani, Red Bororo, Sokoto Gudali (Bokolo), Adamawa Gudali, Wadara, Azawak, Muturu, Keteku, Ndama and Kuri (Pagot, 1992;Babayemi et al, 2014). However, the popular breeds of cattle in southwestern Nigeria are mainly White Fulani and the Bokolo breeds.…”

“…They include the nematodes (e.g. Nematodiru s sp ,Ascaris sp , Strogyloides sp), trematodes (e.g.Paraphistomum sp, Schistosomum sp ) and cestode (e.g.Monienzia sp ) (Onaga et al, 2009). Geoclimatic conditions and a poor GIP awareness by livestock farmers contribute towards a conducive environment for the development and growth of parasites (Raza et al, 2007).…”