Hospital Incidence and Clinico-Therapeutic Management of Trypanosomiasis in Horses

Haemoprotozoal infection especially Trypanosoma evansi in horses has been found to be quite an ambiguity because they were regularly presented either as a carrier or with clinical signs of intermittent fever, peripheral edema, emaciation, urticaria with varying degree. In the present study, hospital incidence of trypanosomiasis was observed to be 17.78% (8/45) among horses presented with above signs. The disease was diagnosed by blood smear examination and PCR. The horses were successfully treated with diminazene aceturate along with supportive therapy and recovered within 5 days of treatment with normalization of altered haemato-biochemical profile.