Fecal samples from beef and dairy calves less than 12-month-old of Chonnam area were examined for coccidial oocysts. The percentages of cattle and coccidian species found were : Eimeria alabamensis. 9.4; E. auburnensis, 12.5; E. bovis, 29.9; E. brasiliensis, 1.5: E. bukidnonensis, 2.1; E. canadensis, 10.4; E. cylindrica, 7.5 E. ellipsoidalis, 11.5; E. pellita, 1.7: e. subspherica, 10.4: E. wyomingensis, 2.9; and E. zuernii, 22.5.
Fifty five percent of the fecal samples from 521 calves were positive for oocysts, and clinical coccidiosis was not found in any of :these calves. The number of species in positive samples ranged from 1 to 7.
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