Canine Trypanosomiasis

Trypanosomiasis is an enzootic progressively fatal haem-protozoan disease, has a potential of cross transmitting between animals (camels, ruminants, equids, canids, felids). Canine trypanosomes cause infections of varying severities in dogs. The infection ranges from acute, subacute to chronic (Nwoha, R. I. O., 2013). Dogs have an important role in the sylvatic cycle of trypanosomatid infections by acting as sentinels of disease and as disease reservoirs supporting their spread in rural areas (G.E.de.O Porfirio et al., 2018). It is transmitted mechanically by insects & dogs were thought to be infected by eating fresh meat, blood, offal or bones (Singh C. et al., 2017). The disease is characterized by intermittent fever, hyporexia, anaemia, progressive weight loss, corneal opacity, oedema of head, limbs & genitals etc. There is severe variation in clinical signs between individual animals & diagnosis is made by