A STAINING METHOD OF GOAT COCCIDIUM AND COCCIDIUM CYST

Abstract

A farm manager has recently visited me, complaining of a great loss among his goats, suffered from acute emaciation with anaemia after severe attacks of diarrhoea since January this year, and during a course of 3 months 37 animals have actually died of the disease. Most of them died in 2 days after the appearance of the symptoms. Post-mortem examination of the dead has shown a more marked change in the small intestine than in the large. Although there was not any sign of the skin symptom as Stevenson and Balfour indicated, I took the disease in suspicion of coccidiosis and wanted to examine the faeces of the diseased animals. A short time later, the manager sent me faeces from 7 goats that were ill. I have found numerous oocysts in 4 materials and in the rest of them no parasite, probably due to an elapse of days after the collection of the material.