The nervous system may be the primary or secondary site of parasitic
infection; parasitic diseases may occur as opportunistic infections or arise in immunecompetent hosts. Parasitic infections cause a major economic impact on the farm goats
industry, especially the infected central nervous system, as they cause a group of
neurological diseases and constitute the biggest single and only challenge for
veterinarians. The neurological health problems caused by these parasites affect goats
as an outbreak in an endemic area or as sporadic cases in no endemic areas because of a
decrease in good management, and immunosuppression caused by different stress as
(transportation, grassing, pregnancy, and other risk factors). Parasites are a diverse
group of organisms that can be broadly classified into single-celled organisms (i.e.
protozoa) or multicellular helminthes (i.e. metazoan). Parasites can cause disease by
physical disruption of tissue as they migrate, inflammatory response, provoking an
intense, and often eosinophilia, some helminthic larvae can be very large, causing
disease because of their expanding mass. A relatively large number of parasites are
zoonotic and transmitted to humans, sometimes migrating through or lodging in tissues,
including the CNS. Some parasites regularly cause symptomatic disease, while others
cause asymptomatic diseases. Most goats through the word carry worms. However, the
extent of their effect on goats in terms of deaths, loss of productivity, and the cost of
control depends on the severity of the infestation and the species of the parasite, where
goats are less able to develop natural immunity compared with other livestock species.
Most common parasites have two stages of development: the larval stage, which may
develop on pasture or tissue of goats as intermediate host, and the adult parasitic stage,
which occurs in the intestine of goats or another definitive host.
Keywords: Clinical manifestation, Goats, Nervous system, Parasites.
