Research Article

A Survey of Seasonal Gastrointestinal Parasitic Infections in Donkeys from a Semiarid Sub-Saharan Region, Sudan

Table 3

Monthly mean count ± SEM of parasites recovered from stomach and small intestine of necropsied donkeys.

MonthsHabronema spp.Parascaris equorumTrichostrongylus axeiAnoplocephala perfoliata

January05 ± 200
February03.7 ± 1.2340
March0 220
April02470
May186.7 ± 86.71.5 ± 0.500
June34 ± 9.34.6 ± 1.940.3 ± 20.70
July80010 ± 4.71
August108.9 ± 33038.5 ± 15.80
September28.6 ± 9.8043.5 ± 8.80
October69.3 ± 13.91411.5 ± 2.61
November43.7 ± 29.423.7 ± 1.82
December41.7 ± 24.217.5 ± 15.518 ± 112

Overall70.1 ± 12.25.7 ± 1.824.3 ± 4.51.5 ± 19.6