Intestinal and hepatic coccidiosis among rabbits in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Background And Aim: The attention to rabbit meat production in Indonesia is comparatively less to other farm animals such as cattle and poultry industries. However, future prospect of rabbit to be seriously industrialized seemed quite promising due to rabbit is highly productive and has short reproduction cycle as well as generation interval. One of the diseases infecting many rabbits is coccidiosis caused by protozoan parasite, spp. The infectious stage of spp. presents ubiquitously in the environment and increases the risk of parasite transmission. Preventive methods such as vaccination are not yet fully developed, while sporadic treatment is not efficiently reduce the cases. In this study, spp. infecting rabbits in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia, were investigated with the aim for precise diagnosis to determine targeted treatment and as a baseline epidemiological data from rabbit in Indonesia.

Materials And Methods: Sample collection was performed randomly for 3 months, from March 2017 to May 2017 and covered areas in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A total of 750 samples were collected. species identification was determined morphologically from the samples after sporulation in 2.5% potassium dichromate byCOCCIMORPH.

Results: Ten species of spp. were identified in this study from the positive samples (527/750; 70.3%). was present in 80% of the positive samples, in 78%, in 61%, in 37%, in 33%, in 31%, in 12%, in 11%, in 10%, and in 10%. Coinfection as noted in 80% of the positive samples with 2-6 species in a specimen. and were the most prevalent among all spp. (p≤0.0001).

Conclusion: spp. is detected in high prevalence among rabbit in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with commonly occurs in mixed infections. In this paper, we describe spp. that are circulating in Indonesia and present it as updated information to farmers and veterinarians. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first information about rabbit coccidiosis in Indonesia.