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

COMMON PARASITES

• Entamoeba invadens which is a commonly encountered protozoal organisms in snakes. banana –shaped intraerythrocytic hemogregarines in blood smear of water snakes, Eimeria in fecal samples of snakes, haemoproteus sp., renifer eggs etc. are commonly seen in snakes.
• The commonly encountered snake mite is Ophionyssus sp.
• Similarly, among ticks, it is the Aponomma species which is frequently encountered in serpentines.