Research Article
Occurrence of Gastrointestinal Parasites in Small Ruminants in the Central Part of Myanmar
Table 5
Description of gastrointestinal parasites according to age and sex of sheep and goats.
| | Category | No. of examined | Total positive no. (%) | Positive no. (%) | | Eimeria | Trichostrongyle | Trichuris | Moniezia expansa |
| | Sheep | | | | | | | | Age | | | | | | | | >6months | 195 | 193 (99) | 191 (97.9) | 180 (92.3) | 78 (40.0) | 14 (7.2) | | <6months | 85 | 85 (100) | 82 (96.4) | 64 (75.2) | 31 (36.4) | 16 (18.8) | | value | | 1.000 | 0.437 | 0.000 | 0.597 | 0.006 | | Sex | | | | | | | | Male | 57 | 57 (100) | 56 (98.2) | 45 (78.9) | 28 (49.1) | 6 (10.5) | | Female | 223 | 221 (99.1) | 217 (97.3) | 199 (89.2) | 81 (36.3) | 24 (10.7) | | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.047 | 0.094 | 1.000 | | Goat | | | | | | | | Age | | | | | | | | >6months | 37 | 34 (91.8) | 32 (86.5) | 22 (59.4) | 10 ((27) | 6 (16.2) | | <6months | 63 | 62 (98.4) | 59 (93.7) | 27 (42.8) | 14 (22.2) | 17 (27) | | value | | 0.142 | 0.073 | 0.147 | 0.632 | 0.623 |
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