ETIOLOGICAL STUDY OF SOME PULMONARY LESIONS IN BUFFALOES IN SOUTHERN OF IRAQ
2006
Mahdi Murshed Thweni
The present study is an attempt to determine the Etiology (Bacterial & Parasitic) of Buffaloes Pulmonary Lesions. For this purpose samples of(105) affected lungs were collected ’ "from abattoirs. of the cities in southern part of Iraq named (Basra, Amara, Nassirya and the Qurna). * 1 Samples of the investigation were obtained through the examination of a total of (917) lung apparently healthy buffaloes examined in six months period from 1st of October 1980 to end ofMarch 1990. Among the encountered Pulmonary Lesions, (68) = eases ((>4.7(>%) were associated with bacterial isolation and from (6) cases (5.71%) no etiology identified. The various bacterial isolates associate with different pulmonary lesions are mentioned and it's significance is discussed. Pulmonary parasitic infection were encountered in (31) cases « (29.5%) of all types of lung affection observed among which one case (3.2%) was caused by V Dict. viviparous and one case of migration of liver flakes (Fasciola gigantic) twenty nine (93.2%) due to larval ofthe tape worm (echinococcus granulose ).
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