Intestinal worms parasitic in some types of birds in Tikrit city and their effect on the intestine histological picture
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Intestinal parasitic worms, birds , Tikrit city , Iraq, histopathology, including 152 from C. livia, 138 from C. oenas, 113 from C. alumbus, 144 from S. turtur and 209 from S. sengalensis, from Tikrit / Iraq from
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The study was conducted by collecting 756 birds, including 152 birds from Columba livia, 138 from C. oenas, 113 birds from C. alumbus, 144 from Streptopelia turtur, and 209 from S. sengalensis, for the period from November 2021 to April 2022. The cestodes Raillietina microcanthata, Cotugnia intermedia, C.infundibulum, Hymenolepis sp. were diagnosed, and the nematode Ascaridia columbae. With varying proportions and severity of infection. As R. microcanthata were recorded parasitic in the intestines of C. livia by 1.39%, and in C. oenas 8.61%, and in C. oenas by 3.87%. . And C. intermedia was recorded as an intruder in the small and large intestines of birds (C. livia, C. oenas, C. alumbus, S. turtur, and S. sengalensis) with varying rates of infection. The infection rate was 1.32% in males and 2.64% in females. It was isolated from pigeons (C. livia, C. oenas, C. alumbus, S. sengalensis). The highest infection rate was recorded in females of C. livia with a rate of 5.08%, and the lowest infection rate in males with a rate of 0.93%.
Hymenolepis sp. was isolated from each of males and females of the species (C. livia, C. oenas, C. alumbus, S. turtur) with an infection rate of 6.93%, 2.89%, 3.87%, 2.77%, respectively. The highest infection rate was in the females of the C. livia, at a rate of 5.08%, and in the females of C. oenas, at a rate of 2.94%.
A. columbae were recorded in the small and large intestines of pigeons, with an infection rate of 5.23%, 5.79%, 2.84%, and 4.1%, respectively. C. alumbus increased by 0.98%.
Where it appeared that there was a wide rupture of the intestinal mucosa due to loss of villi and their shedding with their epithelial cells in intestinal cavity and many white blood cells, macrophages and parasite eggs were found in the main page around the degenerated intestinal glands, its glandular cells. White blood cells around it in the main page, and the intestinal cavity contained masses of epithelial cells degenerated from the villi, with the presence of shrinkage of some mucous intestinal glands with
thin-walled blood vessels devoid of blood.
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