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etiology
Fasciola (liver fluke)
Paramphistomes (stomach flukes)
Species affected
Cattle, sheep, goats and camels
Transmission and pathogenesis
All the flukes of importance to livestock have indirect life-cycles with adults in the domestic animal and intermediate stages in various species of water snails
The infectious stages passed out by the snail form cysts on the grasswhich are subsequently eaten by livestock. The young flukes develop and migrate through the animal's liver causing damage.
Clinical signs
Emaciation, diarrhea, edema, death in heavy infection
Diagnosis
Clinical signs, postmortem
Treatment and control
TX-Broad spectrum antibiotics
Control-control snails
Kavungya answered the question on May 6, 2019 at 09:18
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