Table 5.
Effect of disease control practices on parasite prevalence (%) and load (mean epg/opg) in pigs in Bamboutos, Cameroon.
| Control practices | Strongylid parasites | Coccidia | Strongyloides ransomi | Overall infestation ∗ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | Mean ± Sd | n (%) | Mean ± Sd | n (%) | Mean ± Sd | n (%) | Mean ± Sd | |
| Prophylaxis program exists | ||||||||
| Yes | 185 (58.5) | 103.8±135.1 | 84 (26.6) | 96.4±174.4 | 78 (24.7)a | 62.8±42.2 | 235 (74.4) | 225.3a± 1072.2 |
| No | 5 (62.5) | 150.0±122.5 | 3 (37.5) | 66.7±76.4 | 6 (75.0)a | 50.0±0.0 | 7 (87.5) | 325.0a± 358.6 |
| Vaccination | ||||||||
| Yes | 182 (58.1) | 104.7±136.0 | 82 (26.2) | 536.6±1915.5 | 78 (24.9) | - | 232(74.1) | 226.6± 1077.3 |
| No | 3 (100) | 50.0±0.0 | 2 (66.7) | 50.0±0.0 | 0 (0.0) | - | 3 (100) | 100.0± 50.0 |
| Health caretaker | ||||||||
| Veterinarian | 128 (61.5) | 100.0±94.5 | 63 (30.3)a | 547.6±1986.3 | 57 (27.4) | 63.2±44.8 | 158 (76.0) | 256.9± 1167.3 |
| Farmer | 48 (59.3) | 111.5±213.2 | 12(14.8)a,b | 675.0±2149.4 | 19 (23.5) | 63.2±36.7 | 56 (69.1) | 190.1± 986.9 |
| Both | 14 (40.0) | 128.6±105.1 | 12(34.3)b | 200.0±330.9 | 8 (22.9) | 50.0±0.0 | 28 (80.0) | 141.4± 275.8 |
| Annual treatment frequency | ||||||||
| ≤than 3 | 117 (56.0) | 91.9±96.0 | 57 (27.3) | 73.7±103.6a | 61 (29.2)a | 59.0±28.1 | 157 (75.1) | 100.9± 130.9 |
| >3 | 73 (63.25) | 126.0±178.9 | 30 (26.1) | 1360.0±3023.3a | 23 (20.0)a | 69.6±63.5 | 85 (73.9) | 458.3± 1752.4 |
epg/opg= egg/oocyst per gram of feces; Sd = standard deviation.
abc: values with similar superscripts for a given practice within a column are significantly different (p<0.05).
∗: for overall infestation, the “n” represents the number of animals infested by at least one parasite species.