India is an agriculture based country and livestock sector is a major part of it. Livestock sector plays a major role in Indian economy, which is about 5.36 per cent of total GDP and 26.62 per cent of agricultural GDP. In India Gujarat is one of the leading states in agriculture and showing high growth rate since last few years. Animal husbandry had played crucial and vital role in achieving such attractive growth rate. Production of buffaloes is directly related to health, thus the prime objective to keep them free from any infection and infestation, which adversely affects its milk...

Buffaloes are the important multipurpose farm animals in the Indian sub-continent, contributing significantly to meat and milk production. Because of their habitats, they suffer from a wide variety of parasitic disease amongst which Fasciolosis is an important Helminthic disease in India. Fasciolosis is one of the most serious and widely prevalent Helminthic diseases caused by Fasciola hepatica in hilly tracks, and Fasciola gigantica in all other places. Fasciolosis in buffaloes is asymptomatic, subclinical, and/or chronic form of the disease, adversely affecting their reproductive cycle,...

Man has a long and very complex history of association with dogs. This relationship has its root in the early domestication of companion animals and has evolved to exist in today's society in a vast variety of forms. Dog ranks first among all the domesticated pet animals. With the dawn of civilization the process began 12,000 to 15,000 years ago by the people of South Western Asia. Demodectic mange or Follicular mange or Red mange is a common skin disease of dogs in which proliferation of Demodex canis, an acarine parasite of canine hair follicles, is associated with the development of...