Κipouridis Κ., Κaragiannidis Α

Τhe literature concerning incidence and etiology of schistosomus reflexus in domestic animals is reviewed and an interesting case of dystocia in a twin pregnancy (with a normal and a schistosomus reflexus fetus) is described. Εxamination of the reproductive records in 210 dairy cow units of Ρentalofos region with 10000 cows approximately during a 17-year period (1982-1999) showed that in 2050 cases of bovine dystocia attended, only 1 (0.05%) was caused by schistosomus reflexus and treated by Caesarean section.