Distribution and pathogenicity during development of Camelostrongylus mentulatus in the abomasum of sheep |
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Authors: | RJ Hilton IK Barker MD Rickard |
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Institution: | Department of Veterinary Paraclinical Sciences, University of Melbourne, Veterinary Clinical Centre, Werribee, Victoria, 3030 Australia |
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Abstract: | Fifteen lambs were each inoculated orally with 150 000 infective Camelostrongylus mentalutus larvae. Lambs were killed 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, 21 and 28 days after infection (DAI). Feed consumption and plasma total protein levels of the lambs killed 21 and 28 DAI did not differ significantly from those of uninfected controls. Three and 8 DAI most larvae were recovered from the fundic mocusa, but the intensity of establishment of larvae per gram of tissue was greatest at the cardia and diminished gradually toward the pylorus. Emergence of worms from the cardia and fundus occurred between 8 and 12 DAI, and a proportion of the lume-dwelling population shifted into the antral area, while the number of worms in the antral mucosa remained stable. Nodularity of the mucosa, mucous metaplasia of fundic epithelium, and vascular permeability as indicated by colloidal carbon label, were evident 3–4 DAI, and were most severe 8–12 DAI, when erosion of and inflammatory cell effusion from heavily infected mucosa was marked. pH and Na+ concentration in abomasal content were elevated at all times after infection, with peak values 12 DAI. Plasma pepsinogen levels in infected lambs were elevated beginning 3–12 DAI. |
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