Fasciola hepatica

Liver fluke - egg has operculum at one end

Needs the snail to make the life cycle

Kill using flukicides (-bendazole/BZ/white based)

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Strongyloides papillosus

Thread worm

rarely an issue in production animals

Common in Qld and WA

Haemonchus Contortus

Barber's Pole Worm

Badness - sudden death, anaemia, bottle jaw

Kill with triple drenches with BZ, LEV, MLs/Mectins 

Trichuris spp

Whipworm

Zoonotic, commonly a concern in dogs, causes intermittent diarrhoea with heavy burdens. Also poss pseudo Addisons

Bipolar eggs

Tx with fenbendazole

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Moniezia

Common tapeworm

Not normally pathogenic

Treatment not commonly indicated, but can cause decreased production as competing for nutrients

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from doge

Toxocara canis

Vertical transmission through milk and uterus, horizontal through faeco-oral

General signs of shitty growth (poor coats etc), hypoprotenemia, anaemia

tx with fenbendazole, pyrantel, milbemycin, basically all the good ones

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Cow

Toxocara vitulorum

Migrating larvae can seriously damage numerous organs in adult cattle, particularly the lungs, where they can cause infections with secondary bacteria and subsequent pneumonia. In calves, the adult worms in the small intestine compete for nutrients with the host and can cause diarrhoea (often putrid), colic, enteritis, loss of appetite and weight