DISTRIBUTION OF CESTODES AT SHEEP AND CATTLE IN THE KURGAN REGION

Cestodose in Russia are widespread, as in some regions in the spring-summer period, up to 70–100% of the young are affected. Losses from these helminth infections are global and are manifested by a decrease in meat, milk and wool productivity, and animal death from cestodes parasitism is rarely recorded. The goal of the work was to determine the distribution of imaginal cestodoses of sheep and cattle contained in the conditions of the Kurgan region. The study of the helminthofauna of cattle and sheep was carried out using conventional macrogelminthological, coprooscopic methods, and also using collected data from records in the regional veterinary laboratories and the Veterinary Administrations of the Kurgan Region to determine the epizootic situation in the context of several years. A retrospective analysis of veterinary reporting data was conducted for the period from 1990 to 2012. It is established that the data of the veterinary reports do not fully reflect the real epizootic situation. Helminthic scattering methods revealed that cestodose of ruminants are widely distributed in the Kurgan region. Most cattle and sheep are infested with moniesia. Thus, monieziosis was detected in 23.2+2.6% in cattle and 11.5+1.7% in sheep. Tizanesiosis occurred only in cattle in 1.4+0.2% of cases.