Investigation of pasture forage contamination with horse strongyles in different areas of Urmia, West Azerbaijan province

Equine, including work horses, play an important role in transporting farmers' daily goods and plowing, which from this point of view, their health status is important for their owners. Although work horses are resistant to some parasitic infections, contamination with helminth parasites such as strongyles reduces their mobility and productivity in daily tasks. Strongyles are sub-family nematodes of strongylinae and cyathostominae, causing lesions in the colon wall, diarrhea, colic and emaciation in infected horses. This cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the contamination rate of different pasture forage to small and large horse strongyles in the villages around Urmia city to from ۲۰۱۷ to ۲۰۱۸. After collecting and transferring the samples to the veterinary parasitology department of Urmia University, the larvae were isolated by Berman method and diagnosed based on morphological characteristics. The results of this study showed that contaminations of parasite included Cyathostom larvae, Strongylus equinus, Trichostrongylus axei, strongyle eggs and Parascaris equorum eggs. Cyathostom larvae were the most common strongyle larvae in these pastures.

کلیدواژه ها:

Equine ، Strongyle ، Trichostrongylus axei ، Parascaris equorum