EXPERIMENTAL AND NATURAL INFESTATIONS OF SARCOPTES-SCABIEI IN GOATS AND SHEEP

Clinical studies, at weekly intervals, in goats and sheep in experimen tal and natural infestation of Sarcoptes scabiei revealed that the les ions were more diffuse and generalized in goats, and were localized in patches, espectially at the margin of ears and planum nasale in sheep . Both the hosts exhibited similar clinical manifestations due to natu ral contact and experimental infestation with mites of homologous host origin, but the severity of infestation was less in naturally in rest ed animals. Sarcoptes scabiei, both of goat origin and sheep origin, w ere strictly host specific.