SURVEY OF HAEMOPARASITES OF CATTLE RAISED UNDER PASTORAL AND SEDENTARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN SOBA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

Résumé

A cross sectional study of 100 cattle each selected from pastoralist and sedentary herds was carried out in Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State in order to carried out a survey of haemoparasites in pastoral and sedentary cattle farm management systems using purposeful/judgemental sampling technique. About 5ml of blood was obtained from each of the 200 cattle in both pastoralist and sedentary herds through jugular venopucnture. The blood from the 200 cattle were screened of haemoparasites using thin blood smear and wet mount techniques. Of the 200 blood samples obtained from the pastoralist and sedentary herds that were examined using thin blood smears, 81 blood samples were positive for different haemoparasites of the following genera, Anaplasma (A. centrale and A. marginale), Babesia (B. bovis and B. bigemina) and Theileria (T. mutans). The overall haemoparasitic infection rate in both pastoralist and sedentary herds was 40.5% of which there was no significant difference (p >0.05) in the burden of the infection in pastoralist herds (55.6%) and that of the sedentary (44.4%). Theileria species (T. mutans) as a single infection accounted for 19.6% of the positive samples
while T. mutans with A. marginale (2.0%) accounted for most of the mixed infection commonly observed in the pastoralist herds. The major cattle management system in Soba LGA was pastoral husbandry system. The immediate treatment of cattle in the infected herds was recommended as well as vector control measures.