Occurrence of gastro-intestinal parasites among small ruminants in Malaysia : highlighting Dicrocoelium infection in goats

• Main Authors: Tan, T. K., Chandrawathani, P., Low, V. L, Premaalatha, B., Lee, S. C., Chua, K. H., Sharma, R. S. K., Romano, Ngui, Tay, S. T., Quaza, N.H.N, Lim, Y.A.L.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (MSPTM) 2017
• Subjects: RZ Other systems of medicine
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42148/1/Occurrence.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42148/; https://msptm.org/vol-34-no-4/

The aim of the present study was to determine the gastro-intestinal (GI) parasitic infections among small ruminants (i.e., goats, sheep, deer) in Malaysia through formalin-ether concentration technique. Overall, 70.9% or 302 out of 426 small ruminants (79.4% or 251/316 goats; 87.5% or 35/40 sheep; 2...