Preliminary detection of mites and coccidia with their zoonotic potential in meat-farmed rabbits in three districts in S
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Preliminary detection of mites and coccidia with their zoonotic potential in meat-farmed rabbits in three districts in Selangor, Malaysia Nurul Nadiah Mohamad-Radzi1 • Azlan Che-Amat1 • Nor Azlina Abdul Aziz2 • Shaik Mohamed Amin Babjee2 • Mazlina Mazlan2 • Nur Fazila Saulol Hamid2 • Yusuf Madaki Lekko1
Received: 17 May 2020 / Accepted: 7 October 2020 Ó Indian Society for Parasitology 2020
Abstract Mites infestation and gastrointestinal parasites including coccidia are common problems reported in pets, petting farms and farmed practices. Sarcoptes sp. and Cheyletiella sp. could be a potential zoonosis from rabbits to human. Detection of mites and coccidia with their zoonotic potential in meat-farmed rabbits from three (3) commercial farms in Selangor were investigated. Tape impression, fur pluck, skin scraping and ear swab tests were used for mites detection and faecal samples was used for coccidia examination by using McMaster’s technique and the identification of Eimeria spp. was further analysed by sporulation technique. The overall prevalence of mites and Eimeria spp. (oocysts) in rabbits were 51.85% ± 0.38 (standard deviation; S.D.) and 76.47% ± 0.42 respectively. Sarcoptes scabiei was the most frequent mite found (25.92% ± 0.44), followed by Cheyletiella parasitovorax and Psoroptes cuniculi. Nine Eimeria spp. were identified and the oocysts of E. perforans shows the highest prevalence (64.71% ± 3.97) followed by E. exigua, E. coecicola, E. magna, E. flavescens, E. irresidua, E. intestinalis, E. media and E. stiedai. There was a significant difference (p = 0.013) where large-scale farm has a higher prevalence of coccidia than small scale farms apparently due to the excessive stocking density as coccidia are easily transmitted among rabbits through ingestion of sporulated oocysts.
& Azlan Che-Amat [email protected] 1
Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Department of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
In conclusion, mites and coccidia are commonly present in the commercial rabbit farms, thus control and preventive measures should be executed to reduce the incidence of parasites. The zoonotic mites Sarcoptes scabiei and Cheyletiella parasitovorax detected in this study could be regarded as a public health concern especially when handling the rabbit. Keywords Coccidia Mange Mites Parasites Prevalence Rabbits
Introduction Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are small mammals in the family Leporidae originated from Europe particularly from the Spain and Portugal, currently have been introduced and widespread across the continents of the world (Smith and Boyer 2008). The data show global rabbit meat production reaching 1.8 million metric tonnes a year, where the production is about 50% concentrated in Asia with China is the major rabbit meat producer including other main produc
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