Endoparasites - Donkey
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Common Endoparasites of Donkeys
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. | 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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