PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMICAL CHANGES IN SAIGAS INFECTED WITH COENUROSIS CEREBRALIS

Abstract

This article describes an autopsy of an animal infected with coenurosis, a parasitic disease caused by the larval stage of the tapeworm. A cadaver infected with cenosis showed moderate hardening, the abdomen was swollen and the eyes were closed. The spleen of all sick animals is softened and the tissue structure is disturbed. Examination of the subcutaneous fat showed signs of body fat, but they were mottled with red dots. The lymph nodes were also swollen, dark red, moist, mottled with tiny red dots, with red fluid running along the surface. The lungs were enlarged, the consistency was loose, the serous membrane had many dark red dots, and bloody fluid was leaking from the surface. The heart was found to be loose, enlarged, with soft consistency. The liver was whole-blooded, enlarged, with many dark red dots on the surface, and the gallbladder was moderately full, without stones or parasites.
 On examination of the digestive tract we saw that the stomach was swollen due to a brown fluid content, the intestinal mucosa was damaged and swollen due to the fluid content within, and the intestinal mucosa was swollen, dark red and thickened in places. The brain tissue is hyperemic and oncospheres are found in tubes twisted across the surface and depth of the brain. In the early stages of cenurotic disease, newly formed haemorrhages and hyperaemia were observed in some parts of the cerebral membranes. A detailed description of the pathological anatomical changes that occurred as a result of the disease is given in the article