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Bovine EctoparasitesDr. Dipa Brahmbhatt MPH DVM
Chapter 13
Bovine Ectoparasites• Limit production• Disease• Season:
– spring and summer – SE Texas's all year-round
• Phylum Arthropoda– Flies: Class: Insecta and
Order: Diptera – Ticks, mites: Class:
Arachnida ; Order: Ixodida
Heartwater ticks shown feeding on a cow
Bovine Ectoparasites - Taxonomy• Biting Flies: piercing mouthparts adapted for
blood sucking– Horn fly: Siphona (Haematobia) irritans– Stable Fly: Stomoxys Calcitrans– Horse (Tabanus sp.) and Deer Flies
(Chrysops sp.)– Screw worm fly: Cochliomyia
hominivorax– Gnats: Simulium and Culicoides
• Non-biting Flies– Face fly: Musca autumnalis
• Myiasis– Common cattle grub : Hypoderma
lineatum– Northern cattle grub : Hypoderma
bovis– Screworm: Cochliomyia hominivorax
• Lice• Chewing lice: Damalinia (Bovicola)
bovis – Sucking lice:
• longnosed cattle louse: Linognathus vituli
• shortnosed cattle louse: Haematopinus eurysternus
• Mites• Sarcoptes• Chorioptes• Psoroptes• Demodex bovis
• Mosquitoes• Ticks
Flies
•1 pair of wings•complete metamorphosis•~ 20 families of flies are of veterinary importance
House FlyCREDITS: J. F. Butler, University of Florida
Flies
Comparison of the horn fly to the stable fly, house fly, and face fly. Photo: Photo: John B. Campbell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Face fly: Musca autumnalis:
Horn Fly: Siphona (Haematobia) irritans
• Serious pests in TX • C.S: pain, irritation,
weight loss, low milk production, +/- open sores; secondary infections
• pierces the skin to blood feed
• persistent biter.
• Horn fly: greatest economic loss in US cattle
Horn flies congregate along the back and sides of cattle: SMALL AVID FEEDERS
Horn Fly: Siphona (Haematobia) irritans
• Lifecycle: 10 – 14 days– Eggs: laid in fresh (~ 10 min.
of dropping) manure. – Larvae: hatch ~18 hours and
feed on the dung > through 3 stages in 3 - 5 days.
– Pupal stage: lasts 3 to 5 days > adults which emerge have a preoviposition period of 3 days.
– Mating on the host• females can lay about
200 eggs in their lifetime
Tx: pyrethroid or organophosphate impregnated ear-tags and pour on’s (ivermectin): General for all ectoparasites
Stable Flies: Stomoxys calcitrans
• mechanical transmitters – anthrax – anaplasmosis
• Like house fly but the bayonet-like mouthparts of the differentiate it from the house fly.
• both sexes: biters. • C.S: irritation, lethargy
(blood loss in severe cases); bite wounds and secondary infections
• Tx: pour on’s sprays, remove feces and spoiled hay and grain
SMALL AVID FEEDERS
Horse (Tabanus sp.) and Deer Flies (Chrysops sp.)
Deer Flies (Chrysops spp.)
BOTH:•Only females bite.
•Daytime feeders: vicious biters.
Horse (Tabanus spp.)
• painful bites: stampedes• Transmit: Anaplasmosis, tularemia,anthrax
Gnats
• Simulium and Culicoides are both small gnats that have painful bites.
Culicoides
Face Fly: Musca autumnalis
• Feeds on tears, saliva and mucus.
• Annoying• Mechanical carries:
– Moraxella bovis– IBR– Thelazia spp
(eyeworms)
Myiasis: infestation of vertebrates by dipteran larvae (maggots)
Myiasis• U.S: Cattle warbles
– common cattle grub: Hypoderma lineatum
• LC: eggs – hair of cattle > maggots – skin > esophageal > pupa
– northern cattle grub: Hypoderma bovis
• LC: eggs – hair of cattle > maggots – skin > spinal cord > pupa
• Lifecycle: 10-12 months• Clinical signs
– damage - tissues and hide, reduction of weight gain
TX: before esophagus/ spinal cord > death: Sprays and dips using coumaphos or
phosmet, Pour-on formulations of famphur, fenthion, ivermectin, and
phosmet
Heel flies
Myiasis• Screwworm: Cochliomyia
hominivorax • LC: 3 weeks: Larvae > fly will bore
into live tissue maturing • Very pathogenic and high
mortality– feeds exclusively on live flesh
• Eradicated in US in 1966: introduced sterile males– REPORTABLE: cost producers
$75 million if back in US
LICE – LOUSE: Pediculosis
• Entire lifecycle on host• Transmitted: direct contact
– introduction of carrier animals
LOUSE
LOUSE: Mallophaga
• Chewing lice: order Mallophaga– Little red louse: Damalinia
(Bovicola) bovis
• LC: 4 wks.• Fall and winter:
brisket/leg/in between legs
• C.S: pruritus, unthrifty appearance and a rough coat
Damalinia bovis, male. Courtesy of Dr. Dietrich Barth, Merial
LOUSE: Anoplura• Sucking lice: order Anoplura
– longnosed cattle louse: Linognathus vituli
– shortnosed cattle louse: Haematopinus eurysternus
• Head/ neck/ brisket: winter to early spring
• LC: 4 wks. • C.S: pruritus, unthrifty
appearance and a rough coat, anemia (rare severe infestation)
Linognathus vituli, female. Courtesy of Dr. Dietrich Barth, Merial
Haematopinus eurysternus, female. Courtesy of Dr. Dietrich Barth, Merial
MITES: MANGE
Sarcoptes, Chorioptes, and Psoroptes can be easily differentiated by leg stalk characteristic and mouthparts. Speciation is more difficult and usually requires an expert acarologist.
Sarcoptes Chorioptes Psoroptes
Mange Mites• Sarcoptes scabiel• Transmission: contagious,
spread by direct contact or indirectly by fomites.
• LC: 3 weeks• CS: head, neck, and
shoulders: pruritus is intense, papules develop into crusts
• Diagnosis: deep skin scrapings
• Zoonotic and reportable Sarcoptes scabiei var bovis, female. Courtesy of Dr. Dietrich Barth, Merial
Mange Mites
• Psoroptes spp (most damaging)
• LC: 3 wks. • C.S.: Intense pruritus,
lichenification, secondary bacterial infections, weight loss, dec. milk production
• Signalment: calves• Dx: skin scrapings Psoroptes ovis, female.
Courtesy of Dr. Dietrich Barth, Merial
Mange Mites• Leg mange: Chorioptes spp.• most common type of
mange in cattle in the USA• L.C: 3 weeks• C.S: papules, crusts, and
ulcerations on the legs and can spread to the udder, scrotum, tail, and perineal area
• Reportable in some statesChorioptes bovis, female. Courtesy of Dr. Dietrich Barth, Merial
Mange Mites
• Demodex bovis• C.S: damages hide,
follicular papules and nodules: withers, neck, back, and flanks
• Dx: deep skin scrapings
• Usually resolves with time
Mange lesions
Mosquitoes
• Mosquitoes are small insects: piercing-sucking mouthparts
• Female mosquitoes suck blood
• C.S: painful bites, unthriftiness, and occasionally death by suffocation or heavy blood loss
TICKS
TICKS• Body is a fusion of the thorax and abdomen produces a sac-
like, leathery appearance. • Class Arachnida • Bears recurved teeth • 4 developmental stages: egg, 6-legged seed or larval stage, 8-
legged nymphal stage and 8-legged adult.
Babesiosis• Babesiosis: Red water fever
– Boophilus annulatus• Vector for Babesia bigemina:
PROTOZOA– L.C: May/June, moving cattle to new
pasture– Signalment: Cattle, small ruminants,
water buffalo, reindeer, American bison – C.S: inflammation, itching and swelling
at the bite site, regenerative anemia: red urine, abortion, unthrifty, neurological signs (seizures, blindness)
– Dx: blood smear– Tx: tetracycline
Babesia/ Piroplasmosis in blood smear: Wright or giemsa stain
Anaplasmosis
• Transmission– Vector borne
• Ticks: Dermacentor andersoni, Boophilus, Rhipicephalus , Ixodes , Hyalomma , and Ornithodoros
– blood sucking flies and mosquitoes.
– mechanical vector: scalpels, needles, and tatoo
– Organism: Anaplasma marginale, rickettsial
• Signalment: cattle, sheep, goats, wild ruminants; > 3 yrs; carriers for life, bos taurus RMSF
Anaplasmosis• C.S: progressive anemia
• peracute• Acute: febrile, lose
condition rapidly, anorexia, dec. milk production, GI: constipation, depressed rumination, brown urine (hemoglobinuria does not occur), abortions, cerebral anoxia > aggressive
• Tx: tetracycline
Anaplasma marginale infection in bovine blood, Wright-Giemsa, 100X oil immersion. Intracellular organisms appear as basophilic, spherical inclusions that are generally located near the margin of erythrocytes. Frequent echinocytes are present. The hemat Courtesy of Dr. John W. Harvey
References• Holtgrew-Bohling, Kristin, Large animal clinical procedures for veterinary t
echnicians, 2nd edition, Elsevier, 2012
• http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ig130• http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-1932/VT
MD-7000web.pdf• http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/bovine_babesiosis.pdf• http://
vetmed.iastate.edu/vdpam/extension/beef/current-events/anaplasmosis-iowa
• 5 minute veterinary consult: Ruminant• http://www.vet.k-state.edu/depts/vmth/agpract/articles/
Common_Flies.pdf• http://www.uwyo.edu/vetsci/courses/patb_4110/2-7/
class_notes.htm#Ectoparasites_of_cattle• www.vetmed.isu.edu
References
• http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-DA/INF-DA_HEARTWATER.HTML
• http://www.animalhealth.bayer.com/3380.0.html
• http://parasitology.cvm.ncsu.edu/quiz/ruminant/exam3/ruminantquizFQ.php
• http://vetpda.ucdavis.edu/parasitolog/Parasite.cfm?ID=40