Prevalence of Dairy Cattle Fasciolosis in and around Wolayta Sodo, Southern Ethiopia

Fasciolosis is an economically important parasitic disease of cattle in Ethiopia. The goal of the study was to determine the prevalence of fasciolosis in dairy cattle. A cross sectional study was carried out from January, 2019 to May, 2019 in Wolayta Sodo, Southern Ethiopia. For this, a total of 384 feacal samples were randomly collected from local dairy cattle and all samples were subjected to standard sedimentation test was transported to wolayta Sodo regional labora-tory, Southern Ethiopia. In the laboratory, coprological examination was performed to detect the presence of fasciola egg. Fresh fecal samples for parasitological examination were collected directly from the rectum by using disposable plastic gloves and placed in clean screw capped universal bottles. Each sample was labeled with date of submission, age, body condition and place of origin (Sub city). Samples were preserved with 10% formalin solution. The overall prevalence of bovine fasciolosis was found to be 91 (23.7%) posi- tive samples. From the various risk factor analyzed, age categories of cattle, body conditions and origin influence were found to be not significantly associated (p>0.05) with the prevalence of dairy cat tle fasciolosis. When considered the relationship with age 4-8 years (23.72%) and >8 years (23.68%) and as regards to body condition, medium (23.75%) and fat (23.66%) was recorded; and the preva - lence was varying among different origin that is lower (23.07%) and higher (24.45%) in different origin of the study area.