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    Intestinal lesions associated with transmucosal migration of eggs in calves and hamsters infected with schistosoma bovis
    (University Copenhagen, Denmark, 1992) Semuguruka, William d
    Schistosomiasis in livestock is recorded in many parts of Africa and appears to be widespread and endemic in northern, eastern and southern Africa (Hussein, 1968, Majid, 1980, Malek, 1969, Dinnik and Dinnik, 1965, Lawrence, 1978c). Although the disease is usually of a chronic nature in most livestock, there have been reports of acute infection, sometimes in outbreak proportions, among cattle in Sudan (Eisa,1966; Hussein, 1968), Zimbabwe (Lawrence, 1976, 1977d) and South Africa (Reinecke, 1970; Van Wyk et al , 1974). In a mainly slaughterhouse survey in Tanzania, Dinnik and Dinnik (1965) recorded infections in cattle of between 31-50% in northern, central and southern parts of the country. In a more recent epidemiological study in one region in Tanzania, Kassuku et al (1986) recorded a 30.8% prevalence rate of infection in cattle.