Life cycle

LIFE CYCLE

  • Eggs are composite, distinct operculum
  • Metacercaria is dark in colour and remains viable for 3 months
  • Infection of definitive host is by the ingestion of metacercaria along with the grass herbage.
  • The ingested metacercaria gets excysted in the small intestine and gets attached to the mucosa of duodenum as immature flukes.
  • After 6-8 weeks the immature flukes starts migrating through various parts of intestine.
  • I part of development Intestine – migrate -- Rumen/Reticulum

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