Gastrointestinal Helminth Parasites of Chicken under Different Management System in Mekelle Town, Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Table 8

Describing prevalence of the identified parasite species using both techniques employed.

No	Helminth species	Techniques employed		P-value
		Necropsy (n=138)	Coproscopy (n=410)
1	Ascaridia galli	68.8	0.63	66.6
2	Heterakis gallinarum	72.5	65.6	0.13
3	Capillaria species	51.5	59.3	0.11
4	Raillietina tetragona	65.9	56.3	0.04
5	Raillietina echinobothrida	39.9	54.6	0.00
6	Raillietina cesticillus	55.1	60.0	0.31
7	Hymenolepis carioca	52.2	28.1	0.00
	Overall prevalence	90.60	90.98