ISSN 2756-3391
African Journal of Parasitological Research Vol. 1 (2), pp. 012-019, October, 2014. © International Scholars Journals
Full Length Research Paper
Diagnostic identification and parasitological commonness of ox-like trypanosomosis in little holder ranches of the Vina, Cameroon
*1Mando L. Wilson, 2Mbiatem Pelempi and Tembi fergurson1
1Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
2Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.
E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted 15 September, 2014
Abstract
In the Adamawa locale, the most obvious steers delivering region in Cameroon, there is spacity of dependable information on cow-like trypanosomosis and the infection epizootiology yet creature raisers ascribe colossal financial misfortunes to trypanosomosis in the complete unlucky deficiency of lab determination. Blood was gathered from 330 zebu cows in little holder domesticated animals cultivates in the Mbe Plain and Plateau of the Vina Division of Cameroon to survey the parasitological and seroprevalence rates of ox-like trypanosomosis utilizing the Buffy layer system (BCT) and Enzyme connected immunosorbent test (ELISA-immunizer). The general cow-like trypanosomosis commonness rate in both Mbe plain and the level was 11.5% when BCT was utilized and 31.2% with neutralizer ELISA. The seroprevalence was fundamentally higher (p < 0.001) in more established creatures than more youthful ones in the Mbe plain yet not in the level. Sex did not impact (p > 0.05) the seroprevalence and the mean PCV in both zones while the predominance with the BCT was fundamentally higher in male dairy cattle than in female in both Plateau and the Mbe plain (p < 0. 05). The danger of ox-like trypanosomosis was higher in the Mbe plain than in the level. In both study territories the power of creature trypanosomosis changes as indicated by the biological specialties, proposing that the vectors may be confined in various foci.
Key words: Seroprevalence, trypanosomosis, Vina-Cameroon, predominance, parasitaemia.