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HEMATOLOGICAL STUDIES ON CATTLE EXPOSED TO Fasciola gigantica INFESTATION

  • Taimur, M.J.F.A. (Animal Health Research Division, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute) ;
  • Halder, A.K. (Animal Health Research Division, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute) ;
  • Chowdhury, S.M.Z.H. (Animal Health Research Division, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute) ;
  • Akhter, N. (Animal Health Research Division, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute) ;
  • Islam, M.S. (Animal Health Research Division, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute) ;
  • Kamal, A.H.M. (Animal Health Research Division, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute) ;
  • Islam, K.S. (Dept. of Medicine, Bangladesh Agricultural University)
  • Received : 1992.11.30
  • Accepted : 1993.03.12
  • Published : 1993.06.01

Abstract

Hematological value were determined from 140 Fasciola gigantica infested and 138 non-infested apparently healthy (control) zebu cattle from eight different sites of Bangladesh. The F. gigantica infested cattle have experienced of normocytic normochromic anemia indicated by the significant (p<0.01) decline of total erythrocyte count, hemoglobin level, packed cell volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration and significant (p<0.01) increase of erythrocyte sedimentation rate, as compared with non-infested control animals. Values of mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin content were not differed significantly between the infested and control animals. There observed significantly (p<0.01) higher eosinophil and neutrophil counts and significantly (p<0.01) lower lymphocyte counts in fasciola infested cattle in comparison with the control animals.

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