The tapeworm Cysticercus ovis, also known as Taenia ovis, or more commonly as sheep measles, does not tend to cause serious illness in sheep but can be a cause of carcass rejection and financial loss.

Routine monitoring is a vital component of adequate parasite control in sheep and we are used to seeing stomach worms and liver fluke. This September we encountered an unusual suspect with levels ...

Arusha. Pastoralist communities in Ngorongoro District have called on the government to prioritise research into Coenurosis, a parasitic disease that continues to kill large numbers of goats and sheep ...

The tapeworm E.granulosus primarily completes its lifecycle between dogs and sheep, with the intermediate stage in sheep causing hydatid cysts. Humans exposed to tapeworm eggs in dog faeces can ...

Dogs and sheep, “partners” in the spread of the E.granulosus tapeworm. The veterinary service of the Falklands is asking Islanders to fill out a short survey to help with the battle against ...

THREE to four per cent of lines of sheep at abattoirs in Victoria over the past few years have one or more animals infected with tape worm in them, a national study has shown.

Thus Wetzel1 describes the feeding habits of Chabertia ovina (Gmelin, 1790) from the large intestine of the sheep and says: ” Longitudinal sections of specimens attached to the mucosa show that ...

The rare tapeworm, echinococcus granulosus, usually is transferred between animals with hooves, such as moose or sheep, and canids, such as dogs, wolves or coyotes.