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Abstract A total number of 1997 slaughtered animals were examined for parasitic hepatitis in the present work. These animals included cattle. buffaloes, sheep and goats of both sexes which were slaughtered in Kafer ElSheikh slaughtering houses during the period from the first of Msrch, 1994 till the end of February, 1995 to cover a whole year. The examined animals included 750 cattle (262 males and 488 females), 564 buffaloes (162 males. and 402 females), 566 sheep (177 males and 389 females ) and 117 goats (27 males and 90 females). The pervalence of liver affections in all the examined animals throughout the year was 68% with the highest incidence (72.8%) in sheep and the lowest (47%) in goats. The percentage of these liver affections, in all the male animals during a year, was 58.8% with the highest prevalence (69.9%) in male cattle and lowest (29.6%) in male goats. The prevalence of affections, .among all the female animals throughout the year, was 72.2% with the highest prevalence (85.9%) in female sheep and towest (52.2%) in female goats . The prevalence of hepatic affections among the females ( 7.2.2%) was higher than that of males (58.8%). Also the present study recorded the prevalence of affections in cases of the males and females of the various examined animal species. |