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

ANOPLOCEPHALID CESTODE IN GAURS

• This is a common cestode in wild ruminants with grass mites as intermediate hosts. The wide spread availability of highly resistant grass mites of the genus Oribatid sp are the potential sources of this infection.
• Because of the large size of the cestodes, their presence is obvious and frequently over looking the tree underlying cause of the parasitism.