ETIOLOGICAL STUDY OF SOME PULMONARY LESIONS IN  BUFFALOES IN SOUTHERN OF IRAQ

Mahdi Murshed Thweni

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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