Prevalence of some nematodes in stomach and intestines in farm animals in Baghdad Governorate

Abstract

The research had done to study prevalence of some nematodes which infect the stomach and intestines in farm animals during the period from 14122014 to 1592015. where collecting 100 sample from the cattle, 125 sample from sheep, 75 sample from goats. where had diagnosed by direct method and flotation method, where was the infection rate 61% in cattle, 52.8% in sheep, 57.3% in goats where had studied prevalence rate in haemonchus, oestertagia, oesophagostomum, cooperia and trichuris where was prevalence rate haemonchus, (13, 12, 16)% in cattle, sheep and goats respectively as well as oestertagia was the prevalence rate in it (8, 8 and 4)%. while the infection rate in oesophagostomum was (14, 19 and 13)%. whereas the infection rate in cooperia was (16, 14 and 10)% lastly the infection rate in trichuris was (23, 21 and 7)% per cattle, sheep and goats respectively