INTAS POLIVET

Open Access
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue: 1

Surgical Removal of Ocular Setariasis in a Pony

  • Author:
  • A.D. Firdous, K.H. Bulbul
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 252 to 253

Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology-K (SKUAST-K), Shuhama, Alustang, Srinagar -190006 (Jammu and Kashmir)

*Corresponding author. E-mail: drromey@gmail.coma

Online published on 17 January, 2022.

Abstract

A pony was presented with left eye epiphoria, photophobia and corneal opacity due to an actively moving filarial worm. Surgical worm removal after giving stab incision at 12 o’ clock position of the eye under Triflupromazine tranquilization along with local anesthesia proved successful.

Keywords

Pony, Setaria sp., setariasis