STUDIES ON SCHISTOSOMUS REFLEXUS IN INDIGENOUS CATTLE IN TROPICAL WEST BENGAL

摘要

Schistosomus reflexus is one of the more frequent type of fatal congenital malformation of bovine foetus as encountered in dairy cattle throughout the globe. Its defining features include spinal inversion either dorsiflexion or retroflexion of vertebral column with or without ankylosis, joint contractures or limbs ankylosis and exposure of abdominal and/ or thoracic viscera owing to severe form of abdominal herniation or fissures on ventral or midventral abdominal wall (Ozcan et al.; 2003, Denis andMeyer (1965). This communication reports 4 (four) cases of schistosomus reflexus in indigenous cattle of West Bengal out of 195 dystocia cases during a study period from January, 2000 to December, 2008.