Study of the age dependence of the helminthiasis prevalence in cattle in Azerbaijan

The article talks about the studies carried out for helminthiasis in private livestock farms located on the territory of Ganja-Dashkesan economic district, Shirvan-Salyan economic District, Guba-Khachmaz economic district. As a result of the studies conducted in farms, the extensiveness and intensity of associative helminthiasis infection was identified. The prevalence of invasive pathogens of the disease - helminths, parasitizing on cattle, and the dependence of infection with associative invasion on the age of animals have been studied in farms. During the examinations performed, the presence of infection was studied and extensiveness of infection according to the Shirvan-Salyan economic region with trichocephalosis - 27.4%, nematodirosis - 25.5%, fasciolosis - 17.0%, strongyloidiasis - 22.7%, according to the Ganja-Dashkesan economic region trichocephalosis - 27.3%, nematodirosis - 22.6%, fasciolosis - 10.6%, strongyloidiasis - 19.1%, according to the Guba-Khachmaz economic district, trichocephalosis - 15.3%, nematodirosis - 11.7%, fasciolosis - 8.4%, strongyloidiasis - 15.9% was determined. According to the Shirvan-Salyan economic district, from the intestines of slaughtered animals there were collected 9-29 specimens of helminths of Trichocephalus skrjabini (Baskakov, 1924), 6-15 specimens of Nematodirus oiratianus Rajewskaja, 1929, 8-16 specimens of Strongyloides papillosus (Wedl, 1856), and from the liver 6-17 specimens of Fasciola hepatica Linnaeus, 1758, according to the Ganja-Dashkesan economic district from the intestines of slaughtered animals were collected 8-23 specimens of helminths of T. skrjabini , 5-15 specimens of N. oiratianus , 6-16 specimens of S. papillosus , and from the liver 5-14 specimens of F. hepatica , according to the Guba-Khachmaz economic district from the intestines of slaughtered animals were collected 7-16 specimens of helminths of T. skrjabini , 6-13 specimens of N. oiratianus , 5-11 specimens of S. papillosus , and from the liver 5-12 specimens of F. hepatica and the intensiveness of infection was determined.