Hematological studies on cattle exposed to Fasciola gigantica infestation |
M. J. F. A. Taimur, A. K. Halder, S. M. Z. H. Chowdhury, N. Akhter, M. S. Islam, A. H. M. Kamal, K. S. Islam |
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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. |
Keywords:
Hematology; Cattle; Fasciola gigantica Infestation |
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