Veterinary Parasitology is a branch of parasitology that focuses on parasites affecting domestic and wild animals. These parasites cause significant economic losses through mortality, reduced weight gain, decreased milk yield, poor hide quality, lowered egg production, and increased costs of control. The parasitology encompasses both endoparasites and ectoparasites. Endoparasites primarily include helminths—such as trematodes, cestodes, and nematodes—as well as protozoa, while ectoparasites mainly belong to the arthropods, including arachnids and insects.
General Parasitology
- Introduction to Veterinary Parasitology
- Types of Relationships of Parasites
- Classification of Parasites
- Types of Hosts
- Reproduction of Parasites
- Nutrition of Parasites
- Parasitic Adaptations and Survival Mechanisms
- Types of Parasitic Infection
- Systematics of Parasites
- Life Cycle of Parasites
- Dissemination of Parasites
- Mode of Transmission of Parasites
- Effects of Parasitism in Animals
- Parasitic Immunity
- Host Specificity
- Host-Parasite Relationship
- Control and Treatment of Parasitic Diseases
- Classification and General Characters of Parasitic Phyla
Trematodes
- General Characteristics of Trematodes
- Larval Stages of Trematodes
- Types of Cercariae
- Life Cycle of Trematodes
- Dicrocoelium dendriticum (Lancet Liver Fluke)
- Fasciola (Liver Fluke
- Ovine and Bovine Fasciolosis
- Opisthorchis (Liver Flukes)
- Fasciolopsis buski (Largest Intestinal Fluke)
- Echinostomatidae (Intestinal Flukes)
- Paragonimus westermani (Oriental Lung Fluke) and P. kellicotti
- Prosthogonimus (Oviduct Flukes)
- Amphistomes (Rumen Flukes)
- Paramphistomum cervi (P. gotoi)
- Gigantocotyle explanatum (Bile Duct Amphistome)
- Cotylophoron cotylophorum (Rumen Fluke)
- Gastrothylax crumenifer (Pouched Amphistome)
- Gastrodiscus secundus
- Gastrodiscus aegyptiacus
- Gastrodiscus hominis
- Pseudodiscus collinsi
- Blood Flukes (Schistosomatidae)
- Intestinal or Visceral Schistosomosis
- Cercarial Dermatitis (Swimmer’s Itch)
- Control and Prevention of Trematode (Fluke) Infections
- Snail Control Methods for Prevention of Trematode Infections
- Ornithobilharzia (Orientobilharzia)
Cestodes
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Nematodes
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Protozoology
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Arthropoda
Class Arachnida
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Class Insecta
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