Epidemiological Distribution of Major Ectoparasites Species of Small Ruminant in the Case of Chemical Control Campaign in Welkait District, Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Table 2

Ectoparasite species distribution in goats by agroecology and body condition scores.

Species of ectoparasites	Agroecology				Body condition scores
	Highland (N = 106)	Midland (N = 119)	Lowland (N = 99)	χ^2 ( value)	Good (N = 123)	Medium (N = 132)	Poor (N = 69)	χ^2( value)
R. evertsi evertsi	32 (30.19)	49 (41.18)	27 (27.27)	5.402 (0.067)	27 (39.13)	55 (41.67)	26 (21.14)	13.400 (0.001)
R. B. decoloratus	11 (10.38)	7 (5.88)	1 (1.01)	8.137 (0.017)	5 (4.07)	7 (5.30)	7 (10.14)	3.087 (0.214)
A. variegatum	68 (64.15)	81 (68.07)	9 (9.09)	90.159 (0.00)	44 (35.77)	76 (57.58)	38 (55.07)	13.511 (0.001)
A. gemma	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	8 (8.08)	18.642 (0.00)	4 (3.25)	4 (3.03)	0 (0.00)	2.233 (0.328)
L. stenopsis	36 (33.96)	25 (21.01)	23 (23.23)	5.437 (0.066)	20 (16.26)	39 (29.55)	25 (36.23)	10.700 (0.005)
C. filis	2 (1.89)	1 (0.84)	2 (2.02)	0.618 (0.734)	3 (2.44)	0 (0.00)	2 (2.90)	3.553 (0.169)
C. canis	28 (26.42)	23 (19.33)	9 (9.09)	10.264 (0.006)	23 (18.70)	22 (16.67)	15 (21.74)	0.777 (0.678)
S. scapie var. caprea	3 (2.34%)	1 (0.79%)	0 (0.00)	4.348 (0.114)	0 (0.00)	2 (1.20%)	2 (2.08%)	3.016 (0.221)
Total	97 (91.51)	98 (82.35)	51 (51.52)	49.047 (0.00)	76 (61.79)	106 (80.0)	64 (92.75)	25.522 (0.00)