Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Goat stillborn baby caused by leech infestation during birth
By Y Gharedaghi et al.·Published in Āsīb/shināsī-i Darmāngāhī-i Dāmpizishkī·2010·َAssistant Professor, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz,Iran, IR
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Original publication title: Clinical report of still-birth in a goat due to leech infestation
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- goat
Plain-English summary
A 4-year-old pregnant goat was brought to the vet because she was in severe pain and unable to stand during labor. The vet found that the goat had a leech infestation, with 20 leeches found during the delivery. Although the baby goat was delivered, it had serious swelling and breathing problems and sadly died a few hours later. The leeches likely contributed to the complications during the birth.
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Abstract
Abstract At autumn 2009 a four year old pregnant white indigenous female goat was referred to the veterinary clinic located in Sarab. At initial examinations clinical symptoms such as cachexia, sever pains of parturition, rest less and provocation was seen and as the result of these sever pains tachycardia, tachy pnea, teeth grinding and grades of anemia was seen at mucous membranes and the animal could not stand. The fetus had entered the pelvic canal with flexion of the metacarpus and following correction of this position, it was extracted manually. The newly born kid had anasarcus and generalized edema in the forelimbs, hindlimbs and skull. During manual extraction of the fetus, 20 worms about 10–12 cm in length were discharged from the goats vagina. Isolated parasitic samples from the animal were fixed in %10 formalin and were referred to the parasitological laboratory of veterinary faculty of Islamic Azad university- Tabriz Branch. After further examinations they were identified as limnatis nilotica leeches. The kid goat died hours after birth because of respiratory difficulties.
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