Relationship between anaemia and parasitaemia in sheep naturally infected with Trypanosoma vivax in southwest Nigeria

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Centre for Africaen
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.species.breedDJALLONKEen
cg.subject.ilriSHEEPen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL DISEASESen
dc.contributor.authorOpasina, B.A.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T09:02:41Zen
dc.date.available2016-02-08T09:02:41Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/70745
dc.titleRelationship between anaemia and parasitaemia in sheep naturally infected with Trypanosoma vivax in southwest Nigeriaen
dcterms.abstractTrypanosoma vivax was diagnosed from 20 of 45 (44.4%) West African Dwarf sheep suspected of clinical trypanosomiasis on ILCA’s farm at Fasola in southwest Nigeria. The infection represented 11.8% of the total sheep on the station. Varying levels of parasitaemia and anaemia were observed among the trypanosome positive animals. There was a very significant correlation (r=0.76) between PCV, the measure of the degree of anaemia, and the degree of parasitaemia. Also, there was a significant difference (P<0.01) in the mean PCV and haemoglobin concentration in sheep that were positive and negative for trypanosomes. The haematological values appeared to be affected, in both trypanosome positive and trypanosome negative groups, by another anaemia- causing parasite, Babesia motasi.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.issued1984
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectsheepen
dcterms.subjectanimal diseasesen
dcterms.subjecthaemoglobinen
dcterms.subjectparasitismen
dcterms.subjecttrypanosoma vivaxen
dcterms.subjectanaemiaen
dcterms.subjectbabesiaen
dcterms.typeReport

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