Causative agent
- Schistosoma spindale
Differential diagnosis
- Fasciolosis
- Coccidiosis
1. History taking
- High incidence in lowland or land with water
reservoirs
- The presence of fresh water snail (Indoplanorbis
exustus)
2. Clinical examination
- Watery diarrhea, hemorrhagic enteritis
- Abdominal pain
- Anemia, emaciation
3. Fecal examination
- Sedimentation method
- Rectal scraping
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4. Necropsy
- Poor carcass
- Pale mucous membranes
- Hydropericardium, hydrothorax
- Yellowish or white spot and fibrotic streaks on
surface of liver
- Detection of adult worms in the hepatic portal, and
mesenteric veins
- Petechial hemorrhagic lesions in intestinal mucosa
5. Histopathological observation
- Granuloma in interlobular liver tissue, mucosa,
submucosa and stratum intermuscularis of
intestine, and mesenteric lymph nodes
- Cross section showing parasites in the veins of
lung, liver, mesentery, intestinal wall
Control
- Snail control
- Fence surrounding water reservoir
- Clean drinking water
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