A survey of Sarcocystis infection in domestic pigs in Lipa City, Batangas

Date of Publication

1995

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Biology

College

College of Science

Department/Unit

Biology

Abstract/Summary

Cardiac skeletal muscle tissue samples from one hundred Duroc and Pietrain swines obtaine from Lipa City Slaughter House were microscopically examined for the presence Sarcocystis infection. Forty-seven of the slaughtered swines were five months of age, while 35 and 18 swines were six-months and four-months old, respectively. Sixty-two (62 percent) of the swines were males, while thirty-eight (38 percent) were females. None of the muscle tissue samples collected from June to December 1994 were found positive for sarcocysts. The negative result may imply either non-susceptibility of Duroc and Pietrain Breed of swines to sarcocysts or the existence of provisions and facilities that lesses the chances of exposure of swines to oocysts. Also, it may have been influenced by the muscle tissue smear technique used, in which some positive cases may have been missed out.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU06934

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

21 leaves

Keywords

Swine--Diseases; Parasites--Domestic animals; Micro-organisms; Pathogenic; Veterinary bacteriology

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