PATHOLOGICAL CANGES ASSOCIATED WITH HAPLORCHIS PUMILIO (LOOSS, 1896); AN INTESTINAL TREMATODE OF DOGS

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Among fifty dogs examined for parasitic enteritis, three dogs were found infected with Haplorchis pumilio (LOOSS, 1896). All cases were diagnosed histopathologically. The parasite was observed in between the villar epithelium of the duodenum. The parasite was associated with chronic caterrhal duodenitis, in which eosinophil and lymphocytic celis reaction were prominent. The micromorphology of the parasite was described and the results were discussed.