Prevalence and economic importance of XXXX in slaughtered ruminants in Burdur, Turkey.

@entity1237 @entity291 @entity742 @entity8434
This study was conducted between April 2000 and March 2001, in 12-month period. During the study, local slaughterhouses were visited periodically for 1 year to examine the internal organs (livers, lungs, spleens and hearts) for the presence of cysts and total 1355 @entity291 , 218 @entity742 and 104 @entity1237 were examined for the @entity8434 ( @entity8434 ). It was found that 13.5% of @entity291 , 26.6% of @entity742 and 22.1% of @entity1237 were infected with this disease. While cysts in @entity291 (P < 0.001) and @entity1237 (P > 0.05) were found mostly in lungs (88.5 and 82.6%, respectively), but they were mostly found in livers (P > 0.05) in @entity742 . In addition to this, three spleens and one heart in @entity291 were infected with @entity8434 . In this study, the prevalence of @entity8434 and the number of cysts in ruminants were found different when the @entity291 , @entity742 and @entity1237 examined were stratified based on age. The prevalence and the number of cysts increased with age approaching an asymptotic prevalence of one in the oldest animals (P < 0.05). The number of cysts in @entity291 , @entity742 and @entity1237 were increasing at a rate of 0.31, 0.63 and 0.42/year, respectively. The economic decrease in the value of the carcasses because of the discarded liver and lung as a result of @entity8434 was estimated as 1.1% (7.5 US dollars per @entity291 ) for @entity291 , 4.37% (3.2 US dollars per @entity742 ) for @entity742 and 4.26% (2.9 US dollars per @entity1237 ) for @entity1237 . The minimum total loss for all infected animals was determined to be 583 US dollars in infected animals, based on the market prices in the year 2002.
