Journal of Veterinary Parasitology

SCOPUS
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue: 2

Biometrical studies of infective larvae of common nematode parasites of goats in Kerala

  • Author:
  • N. Thilakan Jeya, V. Sathianesan
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 191 to 194

Department of Parasitology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy-680 657, India.

*Corresponding author, Department of Veterinary parasitology, Madras Veterinary College, Chennai-600 007, E-mail: drjthilakan@yahoo.com

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Abstract

A detailed biometrical study of infective larvae of common nematode parasites, recovered from faecal and egg culture of the worms collected from goats was undertaken under light microscope. The morphological features of L3 of Haemonchus contortus, Oesophagostomum columbianum, O. asperum, Trichostrongylus colubriformis, T. axei, Bunostomum trigonocephalum and Strongyloides papillosus were given with detailed measurements and camera lucida drawings.

Keywords

Biometry, Infective larvae, Nematode, Goat