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Volume 23 (1):32-39, 2019.
Effect of gastrointestinal parasites on hematology, and
serum cholesterol, calcium,
phosphorus
and enzymes in male and female chickens.
A
Ul-Jabbar MH Aljoburi, NA Jassim, Ismael I Hasan.
1Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tikrit
, Iraq.
ABSTRACT
A Ul-Jabbar, Jassim NA, Hasan II Effect of gastrointestinal parasites on hematology,
cholesterol, calcium, phosphorus and serum enzymes in male and female chickens,
Onl J Vet Res., 23 (1):32-39, 2019. We identified gastrointestinal parasites in
43 hens and 34 cocks aged 1.5 – 2 years old from a total cohort of 230 birds. This
accounted for an infestation rate of 33.4% wherein 38.3% were single and 61.7 %
mixed infections. We compared findings in infested birds (n=77) with non-infested
ones (n= 153). In infested birds we identified Ascaridia galli in
15.6%, Capillaria spp. 14.3%, Railleitina echinobothrida 11.7%,
Davainea
proglottinan 11.7%, Amoebotaenia sphenoides 10.4
%, Eimeria spp. 9.1%, Syngamus
trachea 7.8%, Raillietina cesticillus 6.5%, Heterakis
gallinarumin 6.5%, Cryptosporidium spp. 3.8% and Hymenolepsis
carioca in 2.6%. Compared
with values in non-infested controls (P < 0.05) blood glucose was 19%,
protein 24%, albumin 22, alanine aminotranferase 41%
and aspartate aminotransferase 29% lower whereas globulin was 25%, cholesterol 1.8%, calcium 41% and phosphorus 29% higher in
infested birds.
Key words: Gastrointestinal parasites, cocks, hematology,
serum enzymes.
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