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Common name
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Scientific name
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Clinical signs
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| GUT WORMS
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Small strongyles
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Cyathostomins
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Often assymptomatic, early spring larval cyathostomosis – abdominal pain, depression, diarrhoea, hyperlipaemia
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Large strongyles
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Strongylus spp.
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Colic, weight loss, diarrhoea
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Pinworm
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Oxyuris equi
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Anal irritation
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Ascarids/roundworm
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Parascaris equorum
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Colic, ill thrift, obstruction in foals
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Threadworm
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Strongyloides westeri
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Diarrhoea in foals
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Tapeworm
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Anoplocephala spp.
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Implicated in colic
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| LUNGWORMS
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Lungworm
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Dictyocaulus arnfieldi
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Rarely associated with disease in donkeys
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| FLUKES
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Liver fluke
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Fasciola spp.
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Often asymptomatic
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| SPIRURIDS
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Habronema spp.
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Summer sores (in the tropics)
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| HYDATID CYSTS
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Echinococcus granulosus equinus
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Liver dysfunction
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| STOMACH BOTS
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Gasterophilus spp.
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Problem caused by larvae
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| ONCHOCERCIASIS
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Onchocerca cervicalis
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Fistulous withers
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