An Assignment

on
Dracunculus medinensis

SUBMITTED TO
Prof. DR. Md. Jamal Uddin Bhuiyan
Department of Parasitology
Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science
Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet

SUPERVISED BY

Dr. Tilak Chandra Nath

Lecturer
Department of Parasitology
Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science
Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet

SUBMITTED BY

NAME ID NO.
ABDUL HAI CHOWDHURY 1201023
DILRUBA AKTER SATHI 1201055
SHUVASHIS ROY 1201094
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The authors feel a celestial pleasure to express their deepest sense of gratitude,
indebtness and divine praises to the almighty Allah, the Omnipresent and
Omnipotent whose blessing have enabled the authors in successful planning,
materialization and fulfill of this study.

The authors wish to extent their heartful gratitude, profound respect and sincere
appreciation to their respectable teacher and this study supervisor Dr. Tilak
Chandra Nath , Lecturer, Department of Parasitology, Sylhet Agricultural
University, Sylhet, for his scholastic guidance, inspiration, constructive and
valuable suggestions during the entire period of the study work and also for
the preparation of this assignment.

Special thanks to Prof. DR. Md. Jamal Uddin Bhuiyan, Chairman, Department
of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science, Sylhet Agricultural
University, Sylhet.

At last we gratefully acknowledge the help I took from the different text books of
Parasitology and different literature provided by different authors.

The authors
February, 2014
 CONTENTS

Sl. No. Contents Page No.

1. Introduction 01

2. Morphology 02

3. Biology of Dracunculus medinensis 03

4. Pathology and pathogenesis 04

5. Diagnosis 05

6. Prevention and control 06

7. Conclusion 07

8. Reference 08