Eye worms, Thelazia gulosa (Railliet and Henry, 1910)‎, in buffalo, in Iraq

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We reported 21 infections with Thelazia gulosa, in buffalo, slaughtered at Al-Diwaniya, Najaf and Babyl abattoirs, from john to September 2012.Eyes were examined carefully after uprooted 2 eyes from 328 buffalos for searching about parasite.

By gently manipulating, the eyes checking in the conjunctival sacs and corneal surface.6.4% of examined eyes were have eyeworms.Diwania province showed higher infections rate, than Najaf and Babyl 10.22 %, 6.42% and 3% respectively.

The worm burden arranged from 1-3 per eye, with mean number 1.8 parasite eye.According to months, September showed highly infections rate compared with June, July and August 18%, 2.38%, 2.22% and 0% respectively.In 12 buffalos we found 1 eye infect with eyeworm, and 9 with 2 eyes.