The incidence of fascioliasis and some types of bacteria incurred causing lack meat and livers quality of slaughtered animals at Al-Taif, Ksa

الملخص EN

This study, reviews a one year period (2013), recorded of slaughtered house (sheep) at Al-Taif, KSA.

It aimed for determination the prevalence of Fascioliasis and abscesses affecting the liver of slaughtered animals.

A total of 18,925 sheep were slaughtered and 3501 (18.5 %) livers of sheep were condemned due to fascioliasis and abscesses affections.

Of the slaughtered sheep were a significantly (p0.05), higher prevalence of Fascioliasis was recorded sheep (3.1 %).

Fascioliasis considered the most cause of liver condemnation and was responsible for total liver condemnation for sheep as 16.9 %., Out of 60 cases, 20 (3.3 %) were apparently infected with acute suppurative hepatitis while 40 (6.6) out of 60 cases appeared to be infected with chronic hepatitis.

A total of 19 bacterial isolates were recovered from acute suppurative hepatitis specimens, 7(35 %) S.

aureus, 5 (25 %) E.coli, 6 (30 %) Clostridium perfringens and1 (5 %) Clostridium novyi respectively.

While in case of chronic hepatitis 64 bacterial isolates were detected, 1 (2.5 %) S.

aureus, 16 (40 %) E.

coli, 5 (12.5 %) Klebsiella spp, 25 (62.5 %) Clostridium perfringens and1 (2.5 %) Clostridium novyi respectively.