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Common Endoparasites of Donkeys

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

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