BLOOD PARASITES AFFECTS LOCAL RABBITS IN IRAQ, A REVIEW

• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Education in Action Club 2020-03-01
• Series: Global Journal of Public Health Medicine
• Subjects: rabbits; blood parasites; babesia; theileria; anaplasma
• Online Access: https://www.gjphm.org/index.php/gjphm/article/view/29

Rabbits are animals affected by many different species of parasites, infection Lead to  lower body weight gain compared with non-infected rabbits , while sever infection  Lead to death , although rabbits are less likely to develop epidemic diseases, but they are exposed to diseases of care and malnutrition, as well as parasitic diseases .Turning to previous studies that dealt with the spread of blood parasites in rabbits is a protozoan parasite such as (scab body, Babesia sp., Theileria sp., Anaplasma sp., Trypanosom sp. ,Plasmodium sp.). The current study aimed to defiend of blood parasite in rabbit in Iraq . Despite, the few of research on this subject for this study of blood parasites that Infection of rabbits and suggestion development of a database of studies of blood parasites affecting rabbits in Iraq.