HELMINTHS OF DOGS CANIS LUPUS FAMILIARIS OF UZBEKISTAN
Abstract
Domestic carnivores – dogs are often infected with parasites that are dangerous to themselves and to many farm animals, as well as to humans. We have found that dogs of rural and urban populations in Uzbekistan are significantly infested with helminths. Of the 399 individuals of the examined dogs, helminths were found in 378, which is 94.9%. The helminths found during their identification turned out to be representatives of 32 species belonging to 4 classes – Cestoda, Trematoda, Acanthocephala and Nematoda. According to the number of species on the territory of Uzbekistan, nematodes predominate from the groups of helminths under consideration – 18 species. They are distributed among seven orders: Trichocephalida (2 families, 2 genera, 2 species), Ascaridida (2 families, 2 genera, 2 species), Spirurida (5 families, 5 genera, 9 species) and Dioctophymida, Rhabditida, Strongylida, Pseudaliida, which are represented by one family. For the noted nematode species, dogs are definitive hosts. Among the orders of nematodes, the largest number of species has the order Spirurida (9 species). Original data on the structure of the helminth fauna of dogs of rural and urban populations are presented. The study was conducted by the method of complete helminthological autopsies of dogs and individual organs.