Prevalence of Major Gastrointestinal Tract Parasite of Cattle at Municipal Abattoir of Jimma Town, Oromia, South Western Ethiopia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17140/VMOJ-4-134Keywords:
Abattoir; Carpological examination; GIT parasite; Jimma.Abstract
Aim
The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of major gastrointestinal tract (GIT) parasite of cattle’s and associated
major risk factor at Jimma municipal abattoir.
Method
A cross-sectional study with a simple random sampling method was conducted from November, 2018 to April, 2019.
Result
Based on the carpological examination, from 400 animals that were presented for slaughter at Jimma municipal abattoir, 46.8%
(187) of animals have at least one GIT parasite. The study detected five genera of GIT parasite which were Strongyle-type,
Trichuris spp., Monezia spp., Paramphistomum spp. and Eimeria spp. with prevalence of 28.9% (54), 4.8% (9), 3.2% (6), 38.5% (72)
and 13.4% (25), respectively while mixed parasites has 11.2% (21) of prevalence. The diversity of those mixed parasite were
Strongyle type with Paramphistomum spp., Paramphistomum spp. with Eimeria spp., Eimeria spp. with Trichuris spp., Strongyle spp.
with Monezia spp., Paramphistomum spp with Monezia spp,, Strongyle type with Emeria spp. and Paramphistomum spp. with Trichuris
spp. with the prevalence of 42.9%, 14.3%, 14.3%, 9.5%, 14.3%, 23.8% and 10.0% respectively. The prevalence of gastrointestinal parasite based on origin of the study animals was recorded and showed statistically significant difference with p-value
of 0.001 (p≤0.05) and the prevalence was highest in Seka Chekorsa and followed by Kersa, Mena, Oma Nada and Dedo in
decreasing order. The risk factor related to the age showed statistically significant difference (p<0.05) in which GIT parasite
has highest prevalence in young and least in old and moderate in adult cattle. This study showed that infection prevalence was
highest in animal with poor body condition followed by medium and good body condition scores and difference was statistically
significant (p<0.05). In addition, the difference between the season also recorded and found statistically significant (p<0.05).
Conclusion
The finding showed that good management and strategic anthelmintic treatment need to be applied in the area to reduce the
prevalence of the GIT parasites of cattle and their risk factor to lessen economic loss caused by the parasite.
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