Prevalence of Schistosoma nasale infections in bovines (Bos indicus) and snails (Indoplanorbis exustus) was assessed from eastern Vidharbha. A total of 710 animals with their nasal washings were examined from three districts of eastern Maharashtra throughout the year for the presence of S. nasale....

A total of 358 cattle was examined for schistosome infection in Zambian slaughterhouses. A total of 542 worms collected from 104 infected individuals was examined for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and phosphoglucomutase using isoelectric focusing. The overall prevalence of infection was 51%....

Nasal washings were collected from all of the cattle and buffaloes of a total of 72 farmers in 8 villages in Andhra Pradesh and examined for Schistosoma nasalis. Eggs of the parasite were found in 6 of 47 cows, one of 6 heifers, and 95 of 150 bullocks. No male buffaloes were kept, and S. nasalis...

140 cattle aged 5-15 months naturally infected with S. spindale were treated with praziquantel, albendazole and triclabendazole. The best results for reducing faecal egg counts were with praziquantel given 25 mg/kg i.m. or 15 mg/kg orally. The other two drugs had little effect on the parasites. The ...

The pathology of cattle and buffalo calves naturally infected with S. spindale was studied. PM findings in buffalo calves were similar to those seen in cattle calves. Microscopic lesions and the mean levels of protein alubumin, serum aspartate aminotransferase, and serum alanine aminotransferase of ...

Orientobilharzia infection in animals was investigated on cattle and sheep farms in the central, western and northwest regions of Jilin, China. The infection rate in cattle was 95.45% (168/176) in the central area, the positive rate of dairy cows was 20% (4/20) in the western grassland; the...

Samples of the lungs, liver and mesentery of 185 cattle, 110 goats and 25 buffaloes were screened for the presence of schistosomes. Faecal samples of 323 cattle and 15 buffaloes, and nasal swabs from 508 cattle, 110 goats and 40 buffaloes were examined. Schistosoma indicum, S. spindale and S....

Serum from cattle with naturally acquired immunity to Schistosoma bovis was injected intraperitoneally into calves (n=5) that had been infected 4 weeks earlier with 10 000 S. bovis cercariae. Serum was injected weekly until 12 weeks pi to a total of 4500 ml per calf; control groups received normal...

Schistosomiasis generally occurs only in cattle grazing or staying in water infected with schistosomes, but infestation of stall-fed animals has not been reported. In October, 1987, the stall-fed cows of a dairy farm located not far from the Dongxi Lake Wuhan, Hubei, China, exhibited clinical signs ...

In a survey of schistosome parasites of cattle in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, Schistosoma nasale was not found in zebu cattle at Satpura and Kymore plateau. It was, however found in 48.1% of asymptomatic buffaloes and 13.3% of crossbred Jersey cattle, some of which manifested the...