›› 2017, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9): 2747-2754.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2017.09.029

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Research Progress on Prevalence of Horse Gastric Myiasis

YAN Xiao-fei1, HE Xiao-dong1, ZHANG Yang2, YANG Hong-xia2, BA Yin-chahan2   

  1. 1. College of Science and Technology, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China;
    2. College of Animal Medicine, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China
  • Received:2017-02-20 Online:2017-09-20 Published:2017-09-22

Abstract:

Horse gastric myiasis is a chronic wasting parasitosis caused by larvae of Gasterophilus spp. parasitics on the gastrointestinal tract of the equids. Horse gastric myiasis leads to host highly anaemic, angular, poisoning even death. This disease is distributes all over the world, each country has a slightly different epidemic law, because of different geographical position and climatic environment, and whether using insect repellent or not. Our country is mainly popular in the Northeast, Northwest and Inner Mongolia, which of 6 kinds of popular horse Gastrophilus, and the dominant species are G. intestinalis and G. nasalis. In this paper,the author described the infections of horse gastric myiasis at home and abroad in recent years, summarized epidemic law and put forward the research direction, so as to provide reference for the disease prevention and control.

Key words: horse gastric myiasis; prevalence; infection rate; prevention and control

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