Investigation of Tritrichomonas Foetus in Cattle Using Different Methods in Basrah City – Iraq

doi:https://doi.org/10.48112/bcs.v2i1.334

Biomedicine and Chemical Sciences

2023, Volume 2, Issue 1 : 39-43 doi: https://doi.org/10.48112/bcs.v2i1.334

Research Article

Investigation of Tritrichomonas Foetus in Cattle Using Different Methods in Basrah City – Iraq

Muntaha A. H. Nasir

Al-Idreesi S.R.

Wasfi A. Al-Masoudi

DOI : https://doi.org/10.48112/bcs.v2i1.334

Received

Oct. 26, 2022

Revised

Nov. 12, 2022

Accepted

Nov. 13, 2022

Published

Jan. 1, 2023

Abstract

Tritrichomonas foetus causes a venereal disease in cattle called bovine trichomoniasis. T. foetus lives in the reproductive tract of the cow, the surface of the penis and prepuce of the bull and causing early fetal loss and sometimes late term abortions. It can also extend breeding / calving season. In this study, 155 cows of different ages (2-6 years old) and with a variety of clinical signs (repeat breeders, abortions, and discharge only) were examined from different areas in Basrah Province, Iraq from November 2020 to July 2021, and 75 samples collected from healthy animals (without any symptom). The infection rate was detected in wet mount techniques found fewer positive findings than in pouch techniques, with 12 (40%) recorded and in pouch systems, 30 (100%) recorded while in the culture 24(80 %), Giemsa-stained smears 19(63.3%) and Acridine orange was 20 (66.6%). The present study improved that cows more than three years are more susceptible to be infected than cows less than three years. The study concluded that if no control method is applied in Basrah, there is a serious risk of spreading Trichomonas foetus.

Keywords

Culture in diamond medium

In-pouch TF

Staining

Tritrichomonas foetus

Wet preparation

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