Haemosporidians parasites of Gallus domesticus, poultry in Iraq

Haemosporidians are known to be highly pathogenic to domestic poultry with high mortalities ; Free ranging individual village chickens 50 ,of which 38 were infected with Haemosporidian high prevalence (76%) recorded in this study , in addition they were infected with three genera (Plasmodium spp. + Heamoproteus spp. + Leucocytozoon spp. ). The study revealed significant difference between haemoparasite species values either single or mixed infected chicken p ? 0.000 ; Mixed infection with 2 haemoprasites (Plasmodium spp.+ Heamoproteu spp.) were most prevalent infection (47.4%) than the triple haemoprasites (Plasmodium spp. + Heamoproteus spp .+ Leucocytozoon spp. ) (36.8%) or others single haemoprasites infections ; results also reveled that single infection with Heamoproteus spp. shows Higher prevalence (13.2% ) than Plasmodium spp. (2.6%) or Leucocytozoon spp. 0(0%). The study revealed significant difference between localities infection prevalence values single or mixed infected chicken p ? 0.030 with highest value for district Gaton (34.2%) followed by Binzaid 10 (26.3%) ; Results shows that female chicken were more infected (97%) than males (3%) with significant difference p ? 0.000 . This study is originally designed to investigate haemoparasites chicken Gallus domesticus in Diyala province.