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

TOXOCARA CATI IN TIGERS

• Characteristically, the eggs have a pitted egg shell. The infection is mainly by the consumption of eggs with an infective second – stage larvae.
• The pathogenesis leads to death of cubs in captive animal places and depending on the areas of migration of larvae (through lungs or aberrant site like bile duct or through the bowel wall ) the pathogenic effects get established