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    Investigation on Rabies Knowledge, Practices and Determinants of Dog Vaccination and Prevalence of Gastro Intestinal Helminthes among Household With Dogs in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia
    (2020-06) Dinka, Nemera; Dr. Yasmin Jibril, Dr. Bersissa Kumsa
    A cross sectional study was carried out between November, 2019 to April, 2020 in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia, with the aims of investigation on rabies knowledge, practices and determinants of dog vaccination and prevalence of gastro intestinal helminthes among household with dogs. On the study regarding questionnaire interview, a total of 230 households were enrolled and data collected using structured questionnaire and feacal samples was taken from those dogs reared by household interviewed at the same time. Males recruited for this study made up 47.39% (109/230) of all respondents with 121 (52.61%) females interviewed. The mean ages were 43.5 and with an age range of 18-79 years for all respondents. 87(37.83%) of all study participants had attained secondary education. Majority (38.26%) were privately employed. Factors significantly associated with a respondent having a vaccinated dog on included having higher education, when was their dog vaccinated (<6 months and 6-12 months), Rabies modes of transmission, right treatment when exposed to rabies (antibiotics and tetanus without anti-rabies and human post exposure vaccine) and practices Practice on suspected rabid dog (report to veterinary practitioner). In other hand the study aims at investigating the prevalence of the gastro intestinal helminthes of dogs. Out of 230 dogs sampled, 25.2% (n=58) were positive for Ancyclostoma spp., 20.4% (n=47), 10% (n=23), 7.8% (n=18) and 18.3% (n=42) were positive for Dipylidium caninum, Taenia spp., Trichuris spp. and Toxocara spp. respectively. Study pointed out that 80 dogs were free of the above described parasites (65.22%). Concurrent infections with one species of helminthes were more common (53.48%) than infection with two (8.26%), three (2.17%) and four (1.30%) helminthes parasites species and there was no statistically significant difference (P>0.05) of Ancyclostoma spp. Dipylidium caninum, Taenia spp., Trichuris spp. and Toxocara spp. between sex, age, breed and body condition groups.