Ruminant Trichostrongyles Flashcards
Economic losses
Pamb kid calve death Adult ill thrift and death Lower carcass value Poor growth rate Treatment and management costs
Teladorsagia circumcincta (brown stomach worm)
Sheep
Abomasal
Long and hair like
Dis seen in summer and autumn
Watery diarrhoea lost appetite and weight
Cause hyperplastic inflam of abomasal mucosa, repp gastric secr cells with non fxing cells
Hyperproteinaemia due to leakage across dam mucosa
Impaired abomasal fx assoc with pH alteration
Dev IC epi cells and mature emerge onto muc surf
Ostertagia ostertagi symptoms and pathogenesis
Larvae dev in and disrupt abomasal gastric glands adults emerge after 18d of infection
Sev path assoc with adult emergence
PH of abomasum rises as HCl secr cells replaced by indiff cells
Pepsin digestion of pro is inhib
Substantial albumin leakage through abomasal mucosa
Bact overgrowth in abomasum
Cause scour illthroft and suboptimal weight gains red milk yield
Haemonchus contortus
Sheep Abomasal Blood feeder Cause anaemia and hyperprotonaemia Usually seen in lambs in late summer Can occur in naive adults at any time of yr Can cause sub mand oedems Ascites Ill thrift Death Scour seldom present
Trichostrongylus vitrinus (black scour worm)
Prox small intest Just beliw muc layer White and hair like Burrow under mucosa causing villis atrophy so affect food digestion and adsorption Muc hypertrophy Pro leakage and electrolyte and mineral imbalance Dis during autumn and early winter Anotexia Dark scour Poor skel growth Poor woll quality Chronic ill thrift
Cooperia oncophora
Cattle
Mildly patjogenic
Assoc with inappetance and poor weight gain
Similar lifecycle to ostertagia
ML
Spec laxk of efficacy can be problem as just elim oo c have advantage and cause disease
Nematodirus battus
Sm intest Long white worm coiled around villi Catarrhal inflam of intestine Dis of young lambs 6-12wk old may-jun Cause acute onset diarrhoea lethargy abdom pain rapid weight loss dehydration sudden death
Nematode prod loss
Effect feed intake and usage so red growth rate
Hist parasite balance eg if previously unknown parasite encountered
Direct parasite effects
Indirect effects
Parasitic gastroenteritis most important in
Lambs in first grazing season
Naive ewes moved to contam pasture
Sheep with compr imm
Rams
Haemonchus lifecycle
Eggs shed in faeces
L1 and 3 dev in faeces
L3 onto herbage and exsheath in forestonach
L4 on muc surf of gut and feed on blood
Adult in lumen of gut feed on blood and mate and females lay eggs that are voided again
GIT nematode conditions
Hatching and dev of larvae in moist warm conditions min 7d in optimum
In optimal cond time between egg shedding and max L3 no on field is 3-6wk
Early larval stages easily killed by dessication
L3 can survive 6-12wk or longer on pasture and survive frosts
when cool damp conditions persist can survive for 12mnth (except haemonchus
T circumcincta pop dynamics in absence of control determined by
Pasture larval contam
Availability of L3
Build up of infection in sheep
There is an incr in FEC around parturition and early lactation
Comp between preg/lactation and inm resp
Ewes play ley role in teladorsagiosis epidemiology
Haemonchus teladorsag trichostrongylus dis risk for lambs assoc with
Overwintered L3 pop
Ewe faecal egg output
Autoinfection
Ostertagiosis patjigenesis
L3/4 in glands
Red parietal cells and incr undiff cells
Red HCl secr and cause leaky cell jctns
Pepsinogen gets into curc and plasma pros into GIT and red acidity cause pepsin not act from pepsinogen so pro not denatured and red bacteriostasis
Ostertagiosis epidemiology
L3 overwinter - die by mid summer cycled by calves early spring summer
Egg to L3 get faster as temp incr
L3 peak towards mid summer
Egg to L3 slows and stops kid autumn