Title
Prevalence of Sarcocystis sp. in cattle, sheep and goats in abattoirs of Lima
Other title
Prevalencia de sarcocystis sp. en vacunos, ovinos y caprinos beneficiados en los camales de Lima
Date Issued
01 January 1992
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
A study about the prevalence of Sarcocystis sp. in bovine, ovine and goat cattle have been performed using the Trichinoscopy method into heart and esophagus tissues. The results showed that 76 samples of heart tissues from bovine positive over a total of 85 samples (89.5[%]); will 122 sampless from ovine were positiye over a total of 134 samples <91.04[%]). In the same tissue of goat only 33 samples (52.4[%]) Sarcocystis was found. In esophagus the parasitism average was as follow: 2[%] in bovine; 39.8 in ovine and 76.2 in goat. These results achived trat the mayor parasitism in bovine and ovine is located into the heart; whilst in goat the esophagus is the tissue more infected Therefore a hig parasitism by Sarcocystis sp. has been registred in the meat of cattle used as a human food.
Start page
21
End page
24
Volume
4
Issue
February 1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Ciencia animal, Ciencia de productos lácteos
Biología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84986224275
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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