Biochemical indicators in small-cattle infected with blood parasites

Abstract

Studying the ecological and biological features of blood parasites in farm animals and their associative invasions with intestinal parasites is one of the urgent issues. Pursuant to the stages of work performance related to the research work, to implement experiments in the current year, fecal and blood samples from small-cattle (sheep and goat) were collected from various farms in the Absheron region and processed in the laboratory.

The aim of the case is to determine blood parasites of agricultural animals, to research associative infestations with intestinal parasites, to investigate the changes in sick animals by parasitological and biochemical methods and to prepare practical proposals for the prevention and treatment of associative infections based on the results obtained.

After staining with azure-eosin dye using the Romanowski-Giemza and Pappenheim (May-Grunwald-Giemza) method, blood samples taken for analysis are viewed in oil immersion under high magnification (x100) of Axio Scope AI (Carl Zeiss Jena) microscope.

Infection of lymphocytes with Theileria ovis parasite (schizogony phase) has been determined in sheep blood. Infection of erythrocytes (red blood cell) with Babesia bigemina, Babesia ovis parasites is found in the blood of goats. Babesia bigemina type is considered a large form (4.5 μm × 2.0 μm). Found in pear-shaped, round and oval (2–3 μm diameter) forms. Babesia ovis is a small form of the parasite (1.0–2.5 μm in length), occurred in a round shape, located in the erythrocyte fold.