EPIDEMIOLOGY OF GASTROINTESTINAL HELMINTHS IN BUFFALOES

Authors

  • Daniele Bier Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, danielebier@gmail.com http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5010-3647
  • Letícia e Silva Teruya Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, leteruya@gmail.com
  • Dyego Gonçalves Lino Borges Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, dyegogborges@hotmail.com
  • Juliana Paniago Lordello Neves Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, juliana_paniago@hotmail.com
  • Larissa Berreza dos Santos Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, larissamedvet@hotmail.com
  • Fernando de Almeida Borges Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, fernando.borges@ufms.br http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8888-6269

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/cab19140882

Keywords:

Parasithology

Abstract

This study evaluated the prevalence and seasonality of natural infection by gastrointestinal parasites and the susceptibility of different dairy buffalo categories in Bandeirantes, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Forty-one Murrah buffaloes were divided into three categories, 11 suckling calves (0-8 months old), 10 weaned calves (8-18 months old), and 20 adult females over the age of 18 months. Adult animals were free from parasitism or showed very low parasite load. The suckling calves showed a peak of egg per gram of feces (EPG = 2038) in November, when the average rainfall was 69.3 mm and the temperature 25.95 °C, while the lowest egg count (167) occurred in May, two months after the peak of 234.68 mm and 20.59 °C. Weaned calves showed two peaks of EPG from 1288.89 and 875 in September and June, with rainfall of 41.45 and 18.4 mm, temperature 24.16 and 20.69 °C, respectively. Significant (p = 0.01) and negative (r = -0.33) correlation between the EPG of suckling calves and precipitation was observed. The most common gastrointestinal parasites were Haemonchus sp. and Cooperia sp.
Keywords: bubalines; Cooperia; Eimeria; Haemonchus; seasonality.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Daniele Bier, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, danielebier@gmail.com

http://lattes.cnpq.br/7140960933237859

Letícia e Silva Teruya, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, leteruya@gmail.com

http://lattes.cnpq.br/6147250415043006

Dyego Gonçalves Lino Borges, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, dyegogborges@hotmail.com

http://lattes.cnpq.br/9727018061089134

Juliana Paniago Lordello Neves, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, juliana_paniago@hotmail.com

http://lattes.cnpq.br/6025635844050853

Fernando de Almeida Borges, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, fernando.borges@ufms.br

http://lattes.cnpq.br/2416309879613344

Downloads

Published

2018-04-10

How to Cite

BIER, D.; E SILVA TERUYA, L.; GONÇALVES LINO BORGES, D.; PANIAGO LORDELLO NEVES, J.; BERREZA DOS SANTOS, L.; DE ALMEIDA BORGES, F. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF GASTROINTESTINAL HELMINTHS IN BUFFALOES. Brazilian Animal Science/ Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 19, p. 1–9, 2018. DOI: 10.1590/cab19140882. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/e-40882. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 19 (2018): Continuous publication

Section

MEDICINA VETERINÁRIA

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).