Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Parasitic Infestation in Cattle, at Netrakona Sadar Upazilla

Abstract

A four month long (5th January to 30 April, 2021) prevalence study was conducted to determine the common gastrointestinal parasitism in cattle at Upazilla Veterinary Hospital (UVH), Netrokona sadar, Mymensing district of Bangladesh. A total of 48 fecal samples were collected randomly from different cattle breed (Red Chittagong Cattle, local breed and crossbred of HF) and about 113 in number of seven different types of gastro-intestinal parasite were present. Samples were examined by routine coproscopical methods. The investigation revealed that, the overall prevalence of gastrointestinal parasitic infestation was 81.25% in the study population. Among different single gastrointestinal parasitic infections, the overall prevalence of Paramphistomum spp infection was the highest (33.63%) followed by Coccidia spp infection (27.44%), Haemonchus spp (11.50%), Balantidium spp (7.97%), Schistosoma spp (3.54%). The lowest overall prevalence was recorded in Moneizia spp infection (2.65%). Age specific prevalence was found higher in young cattle than adult. In young and adult animal, Paramphistomum infection is highest 31.75% and 36% respectively. Sex specific prevalence exposed female cattle showed almost same susceptibility to different gastrointestinal parasites like male but it was not statistically significant. However, prevalence of Paramphistomum spp infections was the highest in male cattle (41.86%) than female. Prevalence of Fasciola spp infections (18.57%) along with Moneizia spp and Schistosoma spp (4.29%) were found more in female cattle. Moniezia spp infection was only recorded in female cattle of this study. It could be stated that the current investigation was a limited study as topographical variation, seasonal pattern of the diseases, short study period and small number of study population. Hence, it can be recommended further extensive investigation on gastrointestinal parasitism to overcome the limitation of the current studies which will assist to determine the important predictors related to such diseases.