Entamoeba bovis Liebetanz 1905 recorded from large ruminants in Egypt.

Investigations carried out on trematode parasites affecting cattle and buffaloes in Ismailia Governorate revealed a degree of infection with Fasciola sp. attaining 6.95% among the former, and 16.

Effect of treatment of chronic theileriosis with buparvaquone on milk yields.

Chronic, undulating Theileria annulata infection was diagnosed as the cause of severely depressed milk yields in a herd of 44 Friesian cows in Egypt. The herd was divided at random into two groups of 22; one group was injected intramuscularly with a single dose of the experimental antitheilerial drug, buparvaquone, while the other remained untreated. Over the subsequent seven weeks milk yield in the treated group increased to double that of the untreated group (P less than 0.