Prevalence of the Internal and External Infection in Turdus merula in Mazandaran Province
Subject Areas : Large Animal DiseasesJafar Hossienzadeh 1 , Mohammad Reza Youssefi 2 , ABDULHANI SHOJAE 3
1 - Member of the young researchers club, Islamic Azad University, Babol branch
2 - Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran.
3 - Dvm
Keywords: Mazandaran, Turdus merula, Internal parasite, External parasite,
Abstract :
Tuka is one of the domestic birds of Iran that lives in jungles & bushes this bird with a large amount of variety and also with a special beauty, could be considered as a member of environmental series. It is also one of the birds that can catch some parasite infection. Internal parasites mushy consist of Nematode and a few number of Cestoda and external parasites consist of scabies and louse. In order to check the outbreak of internal and external parasites, sampling from killed Tukas started in Mazandaran province after inspecting the skin & feather of the bird, the contents of digesting system and gathering parasite samples, after passing ways of laboratorial assessment, observed things were registered .Overall, from 30 under studding tuka, it was reported that 100% were infected by Acantocefal , 38% were infected by louse Plesialuse, 46% were infected by cestoda Hymenolepis and 94% were infected by scabies Megninia Cubitalis. According to these internal & external parasites in region, it is needed to study more about epidemiology, vectors and pathogenesis of this parasite.
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