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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research

versión On-line ISSN 2219-0635
versión impresa ISSN 0030-2465

Onderstepoort j. vet. res. vol.75 no.2 Pretoria  2008

 

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

 

Bovine intestinal cellular responses following primary and challenge infections with Calicophoron microbothrium metacercariae

 

 

M. MavenyengwaI; S. MukaratirwaIII; M. ObwoloI; J. MonradII

IFaculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare
IIDanish Centre for Experimental Parasitology, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
IIISchool of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban 4001

 

 


ABSTRACT

This study was carried out to establish whether cattle can develop resistance to re-infection by Calicophoron microbothrium by assessing the response of intestinal mucosal globule leukocytes, eosinophils, mast cells and basophils, and the establishment of the parasite in the host. A total of 24 1-year-old Tuli steers were randomly divided into four groups of six animals each and infected with C. microbothrium metacercariae. On the first day of the study, animals in Groups I and II were immunized with 5 000 metacercariae and then challenged with 15 000 metacercariae on Day 150 post-immunization. Animals in Group III were immunized with 15 000 metacercariae at the same time that Groups I and II animals were challenged to act as a positive control group. Animals in Group IV were left uninfected and acted as a negative control group. Three animals from each group were slaughtered on Day 28 post-challenge and the remainder were slaughtered on Day 42 post-challenge. The established amphistomes were recovered and histopathological and cytological examinations were done on the jejunum, duodenum, abomasum and the rumen. The establishment rates of the challenge infection in the immunized and challenged groups were lower and ranged from 0 to 0.2 % as compared to 6 %> from naive animals infected as positive controls. Animals immunized and then challenged with C. microbothrium had significantly higher eosinophil, mast cell and globule leukocytes counts in the intestinal mucosa (P < 0.05) as compared to those of the control group. The study indicates that cattle can develop resistance to C. microbothrium re-infection and that eosinophils and mast cells may be important cells in the rejection of the parasite.

Keywords: Basophil, bovines, Calicophoron microbothrium, challenge, eosinophil, globule leukocyte, mast cell, metacercariae, resistance


 

 

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Accepted for publication 17 January 2008-Editor

 

 

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