VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

ANISAKIASIS IN CHAMELEONS

• Anisakids are nematode parasites of marine mammals, birds, fishes and reptiles occurring in alimentary canal (or) intestinal tissue. These are reddish white worms transmitted by earth worm and cyclops with presence of cylindrical ventriculus in oesophagus.
• Reduced weight gain, diarrohea with discharges from the nose have been usually observed in the affected reptiles.