Pathological study on sheep infected with Schistosoma bovis

The present study researched to know the species of parasite affected sheep at Mosul and Akra areas, in addition to study the pathological lesions in some tissues. Results of this study illustrated that clinical signs of infected animals showed emaciation, sunken eye, and diarrhea, due to infection with Schistosoma bovis which was identified based on the morphology of the adults. Histopathological findings of tissues of infected sheep particularly lymph node, revealed lymphadenitis, while in mesentery cross section of adult parasites in lumen of vein associated with thrombophelebitis has been seen, liver also showed minute granulomas around central vein.