ECTOPARASITES IN GOATS AND SHEEPS IN THE TOWN OF MOSSORO, RIO GRANDE DO NORTE

Authors

  • Ana Diogenes SuassunaBezerra ufersa
  • Silvia Maria Mendes Ahid UFERSA
  • Luiz da Silva Vieira Embrapa Caprinos
  • Herbert Sousa Soares UFERSA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/cab.v11i1.3800

Keywords:

goats, sheep, ectoparasite

Abstract

Goats and sheeps present an ectoparasite diversity that may result in considerable losses in these animals productivity. Fifteen agrarian reform settlements were visited, with the purpose of identifying ectoparasites in goats and sheeps, in which scraping, direct exams, and auricle exsudate collections were carried out. From the 494 examined goats, 89.87% had ectoparasites, as well as 232 sheeps, 76.72%. The arthropods identified in the goats were: Bovicola caprae (80.76%), Rhipicephalus microplus (1.01%), Cochliomyia hominivorax larvae (0.6%), Psoroptes cuniculi (0.4%), and Ctenocephalides felis (3.23%), Amblyomma parvum (1.01%) and Linognathus stenopsis (0.2%) which were described for the first time in Brazilian northeast. Mixed parasitism of B. caprae with R. microplus (0.46%) and P. cuniculi with B. caprae (0.23%) was also identified. In sheeps, B. ovis (74.5%), R. microplus (0.86%), C. hominivorax larvae (0.43%) and A. parvum (0.43%) were the ones registered for the first time, in this species, in Brazilian northeast, besides the association of B. ovis with R. microplus (0.56%). There was no association between gender and age (P>0.05). The development of studies to evaluate the ectoparasite importance as a limiting factor to animal production becomes important. 

KEY WORDS: Goats, ectoparasite, sheeps.

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Author Biographies

Ana Diogenes SuassunaBezerra, ufersa

Médica Veterinária Mestre em ciência Animal, funcionaria da UFERSA pelo departamento de Ciencias Animais. Trabalho na área de parasitologia animal

Silvia Maria Mendes Ahid, UFERSA

doutora em biologia parasitária

Luiz da Silva Vieira, Embrapa Caprinos

pesquisador doutor em Parasitologia Veterinária

Herbert Sousa Soares, UFERSA

bolsista PIBIC/CNPq/UFERSA

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Published

2010-04-01

How to Cite

SUASSUNABEZERRA, A. D.; AHID, S. M. M.; VIEIRA, L. da S.; SOARES, H. S. ECTOPARASITES IN GOATS AND SHEEPS IN THE TOWN OF MOSSORO, RIO GRANDE DO NORTE. Brazilian Animal Science/ Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 1, p. 110–116, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/cab.v11i1.3800. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/3800. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2010)

Section

Veterinary Medicine

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