This manual will cater to the needs of the students of Veterinary Colleges all over India, the same has been prepared as per the course-curriculum devised by Veterinary Council of India. It includes the detailed description of morphological characters of helminth parasites infecting domestic animals, birds and human beings. To make the students/readers to understand the diagnostic features of stained and unstained adults/immature stages of helminths in a better way, the figures along with captions have been given in this manual. Further the pathological lesions caused by helminthic have also been described to understand their role in causing harm to the definitive and intermediate hosts.

After having this manual, the students will not have to search various books for identification of helminths. This manual will also prove useful for field veterinarians in applying their expertise in diagnosis of specific helminthic infections for instituting proper control measures against helminthic infections in domestic animals and poultry.