ARGUMENT ABOUT TRANSMISSION OF TOXOCARA VITULORUM IN BUFFALOES AND COWS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Faculty of Veterinary medicine, zagazig University, Egypt

2 Animal Health Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre, Giza, Egypt.

Abstract

Certain nematodes utilize milk as a means of transfer from one host to another. The transmammary passage of Toxocara vitulorum is very rare. Only one buffalo (out of 42 buffaloes and cows) proved to have Toxocara vitulorum larvae in its milk which may be an indicative of the transmammary transmission. The appearance of T.vitulorum eggs in faeces of calves born from experimentally infected buffaloes is attributed to the transplacental infection.