Abstract
Parasites of veterinary importance have been heavily focused on domesticated livestock that was introduced into the neo-tropics. The text used in the teaching parasitology to veterinary students in Trinidad has only investigated the parasites of domesticated species. In the reviewed veterinary parasitology text no mention was made on the parasites that affect wild neo-tropical animals. Information on wild neo-tropical animals had to be sourced from texts on the management of wild life animals in the Neotropics. The texts that were reviewed in this document spanned from the mid-1950s to 2020. The information presented in this review reveals the exhaustive work done on the parasites of domesticated species but also revealed little information on neo-tropical animals with the potential for domestication. In conclusion, this review reveals the gap of information that is missing from parasitology texts used in the teaching of veterinary students. In the future these parasitology texts can be revised to include chapters on the parasites of neo-tropical animals with the potential for domestication. At present students that graduate from the veterinary parasitology course has little information on the parasites of animals which are present in their 'backyards'.
Highlights
Parasitology is defined as the study of parasitic interactions amongst organisms (Lapage, 1954)
These Neo-tropical animals can be classified into three groups based on their origins
These books were written by authors who were located in the neo-tropics
Summary
Parasitology is defined as the study of parasitic interactions amongst organisms (Lapage, 1954). The first group are animals which were introduced into the Neo-tropics from European invaders These animals are cattle (Bos indicus/ Bos Taurus), sheep (Ovis aries), goat (Capra hircus), pigs (Sus sucrofa), horses (Equus caballus) and chickens (Gallas domesticus) (Jones and Garcia, 2018). Parasites have detrimental effect for livestock animals as they remove essential nutrients from the animals; they cause tissue damage/ injury and introduce other pathogenic organisms into the animals (Soulsby, 1982; Krull, 1968; Lapage, 1954). The objective of this short note is to highlight the information given to veterinary students in Trinidad and Tobago on parasitology. This paper viewed the reference texts that were used in the teaching and attempts to categorize the information accessed
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