Study On Prevalence of Bovine Trypanosomosis and Spatial Distribution of Tsetse Fly and Other Risk Factors In Darimu District, Ilu Aba Bora Zone, Western Ethiopia
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Bovine, Trypanosomosis, Darimu District, Ethiopia, Tsetse flyAbstract
Bovine trypanosomosis is one of the major impediments to livestock development and agricultural production in Ethiopia contributing negatively to the overall development in general and to food self- reliance efforts of the nation in particular. Darimu district is one of the areas with such problems. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was carried out to determine the prevalence of bovine trypanosomosis and tsetse apparent density using parasitological and entomological survey in Darimu district of Western Ethiopia from November 2016 to March 2016. The Parasitological survey was conducted on 614 randomly selected animals during the study period. The prevalence of bovine trypanosomosis was (8.6%) of which T. congolense was the most prevalent (71.69%) trypanosome species followed by T. vivax (22.64%), and mixed infection of T. congolense and T. vivax (5.6%). The highest prevalence was observed in the animals with poor body condition (11.5%) and animals with anemia (10.8%). There was statistically significant variation in the prevalence of trypanosomosis among different body conditions and anemic state of the animal (P<0.05). There was no statically significant difference between sex and age groups (p>0.05). The entomological survey showed that the apparent density of Glossina, were (4.6 flies/trap/day).Glossina. fuscipes, Glossina. pallidipes, Glossina morsitans and Glossina. tachinoides were identified to exist in the study area. The mean PCV value of the infected animals was lower (21.4) as compared to the mean PCV value of non-infected animals (23.5) and statistically, a significant difference was observed between the PCV value of infected and non-infected animals (P<0.05). The study revealed valuable information on the epidemiology of bovine trypanosomiasis in the study area. The present study shows higher prevalence so that implementing control of trypanosomosis with integrated approaches have paramount importance in the study sites.
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