Parasitism in Grazing Animals Flashcards
What are the 4 most important internal parasites in grazing animals?
- nematodes
- liver fluke (ruminants inc. camelids)
- lungworm
- cocciddia
What is the PPP of nematodes?
~ 3 weeks
When is the best larval development of nematodes? What can larvae not survive?
- Warm and moist late autumn/summer
- L can survive freezing but not dessication
Outline the liver fluke lifecycle
- eggs shed in feaces
- miracidium -> snail
- cercariea out of snail onto veg
- metacercariae encycts on veg and is eaten
- immature fluke migrates to liver
- mature fluke in liver
Where are the majority of the nematode population found?
- On pasture, 95% within bottom inch of herbage
- 80% eggs passed from 20% animals
What is the succession of species?
Order that helminth worm numbers are highest thoughout the season > April/July - N. Battus > June/Nov - Ostertagia > July/Nov - Haemonchus > Sept/Dec - Trichostrongylus > Sept/Dec - Acute Fluke > Jan/March - Chronic Fluke
What are the major nemotodes of the abomasum and SI in ruminants?
>Abomasum = HOT! Heamonchus contortus (2cm) Ostertagia (1cm) Teladorsagia (0.5cm) >Small Intestine Trichostrongylus Nematodirus
What is the major trematode affecting ruminants?
Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke)
Which is the main cestode to affect ruminants? Where does it live in GIT and how is it picked up?
Moniezia - SI from pasture mites
What clinical and subclinical effects may nematodes have?
> clinical - D+, weight loss, death > sub clinical - v weight gain - all animals affected - LOP
How do nematodes produce pathologic effects?
- reuced appetite most important
- change in GIT structure and function
- immune and inflam responses
- malabsoprtion
- energy cost of immune response
How does PGE -> protein loss?
- ^ secretion mucous and IgA
- ^ mucosal permeability allowing protein leakage
- local Ag/Ab reaction in gut - vasodilation
- ^ cell turnover in mucosa
What effects does haemonchus cause? What test can be used to quantify this?
- anaemia (blood sucking)
- FAMACHA test
What are the harmful effects of trematodes?
> Acute - liver damage
> Chronic - blood and protein loss, hyperplasia of bile ducts
Which age of animal are often affected by parasitism and why?
Young
- Adults develop an immunity (in most cases)