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The present investigation was carried out to throw the light on theimportant enteric parasites that infect zoo animals in Alexandria zoopark. Therefore the study classified into 3 stages, the first of them, tosurvey the enteric parasites and its infection percentage among 82captive wild animals of Alexandria zoological garden during one year.The second to control these parasites by using some commercialand the third to evaluate the efficacy of some of thesecommercial drugs by counting of egg per gram of feaces. The study wasconducted in Alexandria zoo- Egypt from September 1991 till August1992 including 5 Egyptian deers, 3 Areal deers, 18 Barbary sheep, 3Chempanzees , 2 Patas monkeys,7 white fronted capuchin monkeys, 18Hamadryas Baboons monkeys, 4 zebra, 5 ponies, 10 lions, 5 Tigers,and 2 black Leopard, Faecal analysis of wild ruminants revealed that the enteric parasites infected Arui sheep were Fasciola, Trichostrongylus spp. and Eimeria spp. in percentage of 17.13, 10.3, and 8.68% respectively, and in Egyptian deer the percentage 2.5% for Trichosterongylus spp. and 17.1 % for Trichuris spp. while in theAreal deer were 13.9, 5.56 and 13.89% for Fasciola, Trichostrongylus,Trichuris spp. respectively. Dealing with the enteric parasites infectedprimates were; pin worm and Ascaris spp. as well as with protozoa(Entamoeba histo/ytica) at infection rate 66.04%. The annual infectionrate of helminthes and protozoa was 53.06% and 12.990/0 respectively.The annual percentage of Ascaris eggs output via faeces ofChimpanzee, Patas monkeys and Baboons monkey were 8.33,
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