ATTIR AND MAMMERI STUDY OF SHEEP ENDOPARASITES IN BISKRA REGION (ALGERIA) 39 RESEARCH ARTICLE AN AGE - CLASS STUDY OF SHEEP ENDOPARASITES IN BISKRA REGION (ALGERIA) Badreddine Attir1,2, Adel Mammeri3* 1Department of Nature and Life Sciences, El’Hadjeb, University of ABSTRACT Biskra, Algeria 2Laboratory of Genetics, The present study aims to evaluate the prevalence of Biotechnology, and Valorization of Bio- gastrointestinal parasites in sheep of Biskra region according to resources, University of Biskra age classes and to detect eventual zoonotic parasites. It included 3Department of Agronomic Sciences, 372 sheep, females and males. 248 fecal sheep samples were University of M’Sila, Algeria coprologically examined and coprocultured, 119 being from adult sheep (≥ 12 months) and 129 from lambs (< 12 months). *Corresponding author: Also, 124 adult sheep were necropsied after the slaughter, Dr. Adel Mammeri Address: M’Salah City, Biskra 07000, focusing on the livers, lungs and intestines. The qualitative Algeria flotation technique was used by employing the McMaster Phone: (+213) 06 65 31 11 81 microscope slides. All the statistics was done by using the SPSS ORCID: 0000-0001-8798-322X 20. Prevalences were calculated according to age classes and E-mail:
[email protected] parasites genera. Kendall test (p < 0.05) was applied to detect any correlation between total prevalence and parasite genera Original Submission: prevalences in adults versus lambs. The results showed that 16 September 2020 medium prevalence for five years in adults (63.02 %) was Revised Submission: higher than in lambs (57.36 %). Coproscopy showed: coccidia, 20 November 2020 gastrointestinal strongyles, Nematodirus spp, Moniezia spp Accepted: and Marshallagia spp.