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LAM-small ruminants
parasites
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stomachworms | haemonchus-barber pole worm ostertagia-brown stomach worm trichostrongylus-bankrupt worm |
| coccida | bloody diarrhea prevent with coccidiostats treat with sulfa drugs or amprolium |
| cryptosporidium | usually through contaminated water zoonotic |
| Toxoplasmosis | zoonotic significant cause of abortion in sheep spread through cat feces |
| nasal bots | oestris ovis maggot found in nasal cavity can infect human eye as a dead end host treat with ivermectin |
| fasciola hepatica | liver fluke used snail as intermediate host lives in bile ducts and causes serious damage or death |
| sheep gidworm | taenia multiceps cysticercoid of canine tapeworm uncommon in US cysticercoid found in brain of sheep causes: blindness and ataxia |
| Sheep Ked | wingless fly lives in wool sucks blood irritation/anemia |