Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-jr42d Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T03:41:05.342Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Onchocerciasis Due to O. armillata in Cattle in Orissa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

B. Patnaik
Affiliation:
Research Officer, Stephanofilariasis and Veterinary Parasitologist, Orissa, Bhubaneswar

Extract

The incidence of aortic onchocerciasis was investigated by examining 167 aortas of adult cattle; of these 165 were positive for parasites and nodules.

Five young calves, aged between 3 and 6 months did not reveal any aortic infection, indicating that the infection is seen in adult animals mostly.

The affected aortas are invariably sclerosed, the degree of sclerosis being dependent on the degree of infestation; and the aortic nodules containing worms and microfilariae are seen on both sides but those on the outer wall mostly undergo degeneration and subsequent calcification while the nodules on the inner aspect permit the passage of microfilariae into the circulation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Abdel Malek, E., 1958.—“Occurrence of Onchocerca armillata Railliet and Henry, 1909, in Sudanese Cattle, Bos indicus.” J. Parasit., 44 (4, Sect. 2), 3031.Google Scholar
Adams, J.C.L. and Woodruff, A.W., 1953.—“Diethylcarbamazine in the treatment of Onchocerciasis.” Trans. R. Soc. trop. Med. Hvg., 47, 6069.Google ScholarPubMed
Balanzario, I., 1942.—“La Onchocercosis y el Sindrome epileptico.” Prensa med. Mex., 7, 6264.Google Scholar
Bernard, P.N. and Bauche, J., 1912.—“Filariose ct atherome aortique du buffle et du boeuf.” Bull. Soc. Path, exot., 5, 109114.Google Scholar
Bhalerao, G.D., 1936.—“Helminth Parasites of Domesticated Animals in India.” Sci. Monogr. Conn, agric. Res. India, 6, 309.Google Scholar
Bohm, L.K. and Supperer, R., 1952.—“Die Mondblindheit der Einhuferverursacht durch die Mikrofilarien von Onchocerca reticulata Diesing.” S.B, ost. Akad. Wiss. Abteilung I, Mathematisch-Naturwissen-schaftliche Klasse., 161, 917.Google Scholar
Bohm, L.K., 1954.—“Weitere Untersuchungen uber Mikrofilarien als Erreger der periodischen Augenentzundung der Pferde.” Wien. tierarztl. Mschr., 41, 129139.Google Scholar
Cameron, T.W.M., 1928.—“On a species of Onchocerca from the Ox in West Africa.” J. Helminth., 6, 161164.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chodnik, K.S., 1957.—“Aortic Onchocerciasis due to Onchocerca armillata in Cattle in Ghana, with special reference to the Morphology of the Parasite.” Ann. trop. Med. Parasit., 51, 216224.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Commes, C. and Devanelle, P., 1917.—“L'Onchocercose aortique bovine dans la Haut-Senegal-Niger.” Bull. Soc. Path, exot., 10, 459464.Google Scholar
Eveleth, D.F.Goldsby, A.I., Bolin, F.M. and Bolin, D. W., 1953.—“Effect of Parasitism on conversion of Carotene into Vitamin A by Sheep: a preliminary report.” Vet. Med., 43, 441442.Google Scholar
Fain, A., Herin, V. and Thienpont, D., 1955.—“Filarioses des bovides au Ruanda Urundi. III. Etude Parasitologique. B. Filaires des genres Setaria et Onchocerca et microfilaires sanguines et dermiques.” Ann. Soc. belge Med. trop., 35, 555583.Google Scholar
Ford, T.A., 1907.—“Aortic worms found in the Buffalo in the Federated Malay States.” Vet. J., 63 (old Ser.) or 14 (new Ser.), 517527.Google Scholar
Gaiger, S.H., 1915.—“A Revised Check-list of the Animal Parasites of Domesticated Animals in India.” J. comp. Path., 28, 6776.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hawking, F., 1958.—“Symposium on Onchocerciasis. III. Chemotherapy of Onchocerciasis.” Trans, ray. Soc. trop. Med. Hyg., 52, 109111. (W. Med. Periodicals No. 3637).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Macfie, J.W.S., 1923.—“Onchocerca armillata in cattle in the Gold Coast.” Ann. trop. Med. Parasit., 17, 440441.Google Scholar
Mazzotti, L., 1948.—“Observaciones sobre la oncoccrcosis en Mexico.” Medicina. Revista Mexicana, 28 (548), 3942. (W.M.P. No. 3063).Google Scholar
Mazzotti, L., 1952.—“Descubrimiento de microfilarias de Onchocerca cervicalis en tejidos oculares del caballo.” Medicina. Revista Mexicana, 32 (655), 291292. (W.M.P. No. 3063).Google Scholar
Mazzotti, L. and Hewitt, R., 1948.—“Tratamiento de la oncocercosis por el cloruro de I-dietilcarbamil-4-metilpiperazina (Hetrazan).” Medicina. Revista Mexicana, 28 (548), 3942.Google Scholar
Narasu, S.V., 1953.—“Fits in Cattle.” Indian Vet. J., 30, 7374.Google Scholar
Nemeseri, L., 1955.—“Vizsgalatok mikrofilariaknak lovak szemeben valo gyakorisagarol es ezeknek Kortani jelentosegerol.Mag. allatorv. Lap., 10, 421424. (W. Med. Per. 2199).Google Scholar
Popper, H. and Greenberg, R., 1941.—“Visualization of Vitamin A in rat organs by fluorescence microscopy.” Arch. Path., 32, 1132.Google Scholar
Railliet, A. and Henry, A., 1912.—“Nematodes vasculicoles des Bovins annamites.” Bull. Soc. Path, exot., 5, 115118.Google Scholar
Ramanujachari, G. and Alwar, V.S., 1953.—“Indian Pig (Sus scrofa domestica) as a host for Onchocerca sp. and Enterobius vermicularis.” Indian Vet. J., 29, 329.Google Scholar
Rodger, F.C., 1958.—Blindness in West Africa. Part II. Lewis, H. K., London (1959).Google Scholar
Rodger, F.C, 1960.—“The Pathogenesis and Pathology of ocular Onchocerciasis, Parts I to III.” Amer. J. Ophthal., 49, 104135.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rodger, F.C, 1960.—“The Pathogenesis and Pathology of ocular Onchocerciasis, Part IV. The Pathology.” Amer. J. Ophthal., 49, 327337.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rodger, F.C and Brown, J.A.C., 1953.—“Assessment of the density of infection with onchocerciasis and the probable level of safety from its ocular complications.” Trans. R. Soc. trop. Med. Hyg., 51. 271282.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Varma, A.K., 1953.—“(1) Occurrence of Elaeophora poeli in Indian Buffalo, (2) Onchocerciasis of the aorta of Cattle in India and (3) Stephanofilariasis in Cattle in India.” (Demonstration). Trans. R. Soc. trop. Med. Hyg., 47, 11.Google Scholar
Woodruff, A.W., Bell, S., Ridley, D.S. and Schofield, F.D., 1958.— “Symposium on Onchocerciasis. II. Clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of Onchocerciasis.” Trans. R. Soc. trop. Med. Hyg., 52, 97108.CrossRefGoogle Scholar