More than 30 calves were experimentally infected with
Dictyocaulus viviparuswith the following results.
(1) First-stage larvae appeared in feces in the 3rd and 4th week after infection, showed a peak in the 5th and 6th week, and disappeared in the 9th or 10th week. This phenomen was influenced to some extent by the number of in fective larvae.
(2) Pneumonic symptoms, such as increased respiratory rate, high body temperature, and coughing, were seen from three to twelve weeks after infection. Eosinophils began to increase four to five weeks after infection. The severity of pustular bronco-pneumonia with an eosinophilic exudate was parallel with the pneumonic symptoms and the number of adult langworms.
(3) It was infered that the pattern of excretion of first-stage larvae and the clinical symptoms depended to a large extent upon the nutritional condition and the number of infective larvae.
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