INTAS POLIVET

Open Access
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 2

Clinico-Diagnostic Studies and Therapeutic Management of Otitis in Buffaloes

  • Author:
  • N. Lakshmi Rani, K. Nalini Kumari, N. Syaama Sundar, R.V. Suresh Kumar, Makkena Sreenu, P. Ananda Kumar
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 276 to 279

Department of Veterinary Medicine, NTR College of Veterinary Science Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU), Gannavaram-521101, Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

The prevalence of parasitic otitis among buffaloes was 70.48 percent (with 117/166 of ears having clinical otitis with parasite presence). Among the parasites, Stephanofilaria sp., Onchocerca sp., Rhabditis sp. and Railletia auris were obtained from 32.47, 5.98, 5.13 and 40.17 percent of ears, respectively. All were infested ears with parasitic otitis responded to Ivermectin treatment.

Keywords

Buffalo, diagnosis, otitis, parasitic