Uncommon co-infection due to Moniezia expansa and Moniezia benedeni in young goats from Romania: morphological and histopathological analysis. 2020

Olimpia C Iacob, and Wael M El-Deeb, and Sorin-Aurelian Paşca, and Andreea-Ioana Turtoi
Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" in Iași, M. Sadoveanu Alley, 3 no., 799490, Iași, Romania.

Digestive parasitoses negatively affect the goat's health, the gain weight of the kids, the efficiency of food conversion, fertility, and productivity, causing important economic losses. This investigation was carried out on a group of goats, Carpathian breed, in the hill area of Tg. Frumos-Iași, to specify the etiology of the acute digestive syndrome, triggered towards the end of the pasturing season, in the young goats. In this context, four sick animals, aged 6-8 months, were slaughtered. Morphological, pathological, and parasitological examination of dissected animals was conducted. Multiple tapeworms belonging to Moniezia expansa and Moniezia benedeni species were found. From the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, fragments were taken for the histopathological processing. The identification of the tapeworm species was carried out through morphological differentiation. The prevalence of tapeworm infection in the examined animals was 100% of which M. expansa was 56.10% and M. benedeni was 43.90%. The average infection intensity was 10.25 tapeworms/animal. The average intensity of infection with M. expansa was 7.5 tapeworms/ animal, and with M. benedeni it was 4.5 tapeworms/animal. Severe pathological lesions in the small intestine such as occlusion, intestinal obstruction, catarrhal inflammation, total atrophy of intestinal villi, ulcerations were produced by the parasites, which led to the clinical expression of the disease and to direct economic losses. The infection with the Moniezia benedeni species is noticed for the first time in Romania, in young goats.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D002589 Cestoda A subclass of segmented worms comprising the tapeworms. Raillietina,Tapeworms,Cestodes,Cestodas,Cestode,Raillietinas,Tapeworm
D002590 Cestode Infections Infections with true tapeworms of the helminth subclass CESTODA. Bertielliasis,Cenuriasis,Coenuriasis,Dipylidiasis,Raillietiniasis,Tapeworm Infection,Bertielliases,Cenuriases,Cestode Infection,Coenuriases,Dipylidiases,Infection, Cestode,Infection, Tapeworm,Infections, Cestode,Infections, Tapeworm,Raillietiniases,Tapeworm Infections
D006041 Goats Any of numerous agile, hollow-horned RUMINANTS of the genus Capra, in the family Bovidae, closely related to the SHEEP. Capra,Capras,Goat
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D012383 Romania A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine. The capital is Bucharest. Rumania,Roumania
D060085 Coinfection Simultaneous infection of a host organism by two or more pathogens. In virology, coinfection commonly refers to simultaneous infection of a single cell by two or more different viruses. Mixed Infection,Co-infection,Polymicrobial Infection,Secondary Infection,Secondary Infections,Co infection,Co-infections,Coinfections,Infection, Mixed,Infection, Polymicrobial,Infection, Secondary,Infections, Mixed,Infections, Polymicrobial,Infections, Secondary,Mixed Infections,Polymicrobial Infections

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