STUDIES ON SCHISTOSOMUS REFLEXUS IN INDIGENOUS CATTLE IN TROPICAL WEST BENGAL, INDIA

Abstract

During study period of 9 years (January 2000 to December 2008) a total of 195 dystocia cases were attended out of which schistosomus reflexus fetuses were extracted four in number. Detail necropsy studies were made on all four monster fetuses for defiring the characteristic features of schistosomus reflexus bovine fetal monstrosity as recorded in tropical West Bengal, India.

Keywords

• Monster
• Schistosomus reflexus
• Eventration of abdominal organs
• Ankylosis