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

Trichuris sp. in spotted deer

TRICHURIS SP. SPOTTED DEER

• The specific diagnosis was made upon finding operculated, yellowish coloured egg in the faecal sample of the infected cervid. The cross infection from domestic to wild and from wild to domestic ruminants is possible.
• Trichuriasis has been reported in block bucks, sambar deer, in addition to the non-human primates in which case, it is zoonotic.