title: Studies on the parasitic helminths of slaughtered animals in Iraq. I. Parasitic helminths of the liver of herbivores.
abstract: The livers and lungs of 580 sheep, 160 goats, 418 cattle, 50 camels and 48 buffaloes slaughtered in Baghdad in April-July, 1981 were examined for helminth parasites; 14.3% of the sheep, 0.6% of the goats, 18.2% of the cattle, 72.0% of the camels and 8.3% of the buffaloes were infected with trematodes and cestodes. Dicrocoelium dendriticum is reported from the livers of sheep in Iraq for the first time.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002020:Buffaloes; D002162:Camelus; D002417:Cattle; D004013:Dicrocoelium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006041:Goats; D006373:Helminthiasis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006374:Helminthiasis, Animal; D007493:Iraq; D008099:Liver / Q000469:parasitology; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology