Dr. G.C. MandaliRAJPURA NASRINBANU RAFIKBHAI2020-07-072020-07-072018http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810148749Goat is a versatile animal known as the “Poor man’s cow” in India. Archaeological studies provide sufficient evidence that goat was the earliest ruminant and probably the first animal after dog to be domesticated by man long before 7000 B.C. India has the largest population of goats of the world. Trichostrongyle nematodes are most pathogenic and economically important parasite of small ruminants and knowledge of these species is important for preventing and managing parasitic diseases.en-USnullThesis