Prevalence and Risk Factors of Bovine Fasciolosis in Cattle Slaughtered in Khartoum State

Abstract

conducted on A cross-sectional study was 302 cattle slaughtered at Elkadaro slaughterhouse in Khartoum State, Sudan, during the period extended from April to June 2014 to estimate the prevalence of fasciolosis in slaughtered cattle and to investigate the potential risk factors associated with the disease. Routine meat inspection procedure was employed to detect the presence of fasciola in liver. The study showed that the overall prevalence was 5% the prevalence of bovinefascilosis at post-mortem was found to be 3.3% and the prevalence by fecal examination was 1.7%. A univariate analysis was performed using the Chi-square as a test of significance for the association between the infection and the investigated potential risk factors.Significantassociation was detected between bovine fasciolosis infection and each of age (p-value = 0.00), breed (p-value = 0.00) and animal source (p-value = 0.00) . In multivariate analysis four risk factors were found to be significantly associated (p-value≤ 0.05) with fasciolosis. These risk factors included age (p-value = 0.00), breed (p-value = 0.00), animal source (p-value = 0.00) and grazing type (p-value = 0.005).