Coenuriasis in cattle

Abstract

Although coenuriasis in cattle is referred to in textbooks, it is less common than in sheep, and is possibly not considered in the differential diagnosis of nervous disorders of cattle in most areas of the United Kingdom. (Greig and Holmes, 1977).

Coenuriasis (local names: Gid, Bendro, Sturdy, Tuatheal) is the disease caused by invasion of the brain and occasionally the spinal cord by the cystic larval stage of Taenia multiceps, a tapeworm of the dog and fox (Williams, 1976; Edwards et al., 1979). The localized space-occupying lesion of the CNS usually results in death of the host unless treated surgically.