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Ocular infection of donkeys (Equus asinus) with Setaria equina
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Ocular infection of donkeys (Equus asinus) with Setaria equina

Mohamed A. Marzok and Abdel-Razek Y. Desouky
Tropical animal health and production, Vol.41(6), pp.859-863
01/08/2009
PMID: 19015947

Abstract

Agriculture Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology Veterinary Sciences
Seven donkeys raised in different locations in Egypt were found to have a unilateral eye showing motile white worms in the aqueous humor. The parasites were surgically removed from the anterior chamber of the eye in five out of the seven donkeys, and were cleared, mounted and identified as Setaria equina based on light microscopic features. The ocular infection with S. equina reported herein may be the first reported aberrant cases in the Egyptian animals.

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