Volume: 54 Issue: 1
Year: 2023, Page: 234-238, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2023.54.1.234-238
Received: June 28, 2022 Accepted: Oct. 11, 2022 Published: March 31, 2023
Gastro-intestinal strongylosis is a major parasitic infection in caprine causing reduced performance, irreversible damage and death, which eventually leads to huge economic loss to the producers. The use of anthelmintics as a simple, effective and quick control method against the parasitism by the farmers has been rampant since decades. But its indiscriminate and undue usage invariably paved way to the development of anthelmintic resistance in parasites. It is high time that control strategies are designed so as to utilise chemotherapy appropriately at the time that coincide with heavy incidence of strongylosis. In the present study, a total of 109 goats, comprising of 58 Malabari and 51 Attappady Black goats from an organised farm were screened for the incidence for strongyle infection. The infection was found to be very high throughout the monsoon seasons in Kerala (June to October) with 94.86 ±1.47 per cent. Majority of the animals exhibited very heavy infection with faecal egg count of (FEC) >1500 during the study period. On coproculture, Haemonchus contortus was found to be the most predominant strongyle followed by Oesophagostomum spp. and Trichostrongylus spp.
Keywords: Incidence, strongylosis, monsoon, Haemonchus contortus
Asha, R. 2017. Detection and molecular characterization of benzimidazole resistance in gastro- intestinal nematodes of goats. PhD thesis, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Pookode, 134p.
Coles, G.C., Bauer, C., Borgsteede, F.H.M., Geerts, S., Klei, T. R., Taylor, M.A., Waller, P.J. and World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP). 1992. Methods for the detection of anthelminthic resistance in nematodes of veterinary importance. Vet. Parasitol. 44: 35-44.
Deepa, C.K. and Devada, K. 2007. Anthelmintic resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes of goats. J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 38: 52-54.
Fthenakis, G.C. and Papadopoulos, E. 2018. Impact of parasitism in goat production. Small Rum. Res. 163: 21-23.
Jeyathilakan, J. 1995. Identification, bionomics and control of infective larvae of common nematodes of domestic ruminants. M.V.Sc thesis, Kerala Agricultural University. Thrissur, 107p.
Rajagopal, A., Radhika, R., Shameem, H. and Devada, K. 2013. Detection of anthelmintic resistance in small scale goat rearing units in Thrissur. J. Vet. Anim. Sci.44: 51-53.
Sathianesan, V and Peter, C.T. 1970. A modification of Veglias’ (1923, 1928) method of faecal cultures. Kerala. J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 1: 107 – 109.
Singh, A.K., Das, G., Roy, B., Nath, S., Naresh, R. and Kumar, S. 2015. Prevalence of gastro-intestinal parasitic infections in goat of Madhya Pradesh, India. J. Parasitic Dis. 39:716-719.
Singh, D. and Swarnkar, C.P. 2013. Comparative impact of conventional and strategic worm management schemes in sheep flocks of arid Rajasthan. Indian J. Anim. Sci. 83: 1128–34.
Singh, D., Swarnkar, C.P. and Khan, F.A. 2018. Epidemiology of gastrointestinal parasites and impact of worm management schemes in sheep flocks of Rajasthan. Small Rumin. Res. 164:22–27.
Singh, D., Swarnkar, C.P., Khan, F.A., Srivastava, C.P. and Bhagwan, P.S.K. 1997. Epidemiology of ovine gastrointestinal nematodes at an organised farm in Rajasthan, India. Small Rum. Res. 26: 31-37.
Soulsby, E.J.L. 1982. Helminths. Arthropods and Protozoa of Domestic Animals. (7th Ed.). Balliere Tindall, London, 809p.
Syamala, K. 2020. Formulation of a combined targeted selective treatment strategy for sustainable control of gastrointestinal nematodosis in goats. PhD thesis, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Pookode, 196p.
Syamala, K., Devada, K., Bindu, L., Raji, K., Thirupathy, V.R. and Lucy, S. 2021. Impact of climatic variables on the epidemiology of strongylosis in goats of kerala. J.Indian Vet. Ass. 19: 75- 80.
van Wyk, J.A., Cabaret, J. and Michael, L.M. 2004. Morphological identification of nematode larvae of small ruminants and cattle simplified. Vet. Parasitol. 119: 277-306.
van Wyk, J.A. and Mayhew, E. 2013. Morphological identification of parasitic nematode infective larvae of small ruminants and cattle: a practical guide. Onderstepoort J.Vet. Res. 80: 1-14.
© 2023 Raveendran et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Raveendran,R., Syamala,K., Lakshmanan,B., Rajagopal,A., Thomas,M. and Devada,K. 2023. Incidence of gastro-intestinal strongylosis during monsoon seasons in native goat breeds of Kerala. J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 54(1):234-238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2023.54.1.234-238