Egg count
Faecal Cyathostomin Egg Count distribution and efficacy of anthelmintics against cyathostomins in Italy: a matter of geography?
... Faecal Egg Count Reduction Test (FECRT) to evaluate the efficacy of the major anthelmintic compounds used in current practice against cyathostomins in our country ...
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Microsatellite Polymorphism in DRB2 Gene and its Relation to Haemonchus Contortus Parasites Fecal Egg Count in Iranian Ghezel Sheep
... genes. Ovar DRB 2 gene is one of the pseudo genes which lacks exon 1 and 2, while it has two aberrant coding ends (Gruszczynska et al. 2002). Then, in the p r e s e n t s t u d y w e e v a l u a t e d m i c r o s a t e l ...
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Investigating anthelmintic efficacy against gastrointestinal nematodes in cattle by considering appropriate probability distributions for faecal egg count data
... With respect to ZIDs, these distributions (more speci fi cally zero in fl ated negative binomial distributions) have been used in worm egg count simulation studies involving sheep (Denwood et al., 2008) and ...
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Analysing the oviposition behaviour of malaria mosquitoes: design considerations for improving two choice egg count experiments
... Relatively young females are selected and blood fed when preparing gravid mosquitoes for experiments to maxi- mize the proportion that survive until experiments are done 2–3 days after the blood meal. It was explored if ...
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Rapid assessment of faecal egg count and faecal egg count reduction through composite sampling in cattle
... One of the options to make GIN control practices more sustainable is to lower drug application frequency by targeting treatment (TT) to the whole group of ani- mals when infection is high while preserving a pool of ...
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Effects of worm control practices examined by a combined faecal egg count and questionnaire survey on horse farms in Germany, Italy and the UK
... faecal egg count (FEC) and questionnaire survey was performed during summer of 2008 on 20 German, 26 Italian and 16 UK horse farms with a history of no anthelmintic treatment in the past 12 ...50 egg ...
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Anthelmintic-resistant nematodes in Irish commercial sheep flocks- the state of play
... faecal egg count reduction test (FECRT) and the micro-agar larval development test (MALDT), both of which can be used to detect resist- ance to benzimidazole (BZ) and levamisole ...faecal egg ...
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Study of the distribution and abundance of the eggs of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus according to the habitat and meteorological variables, municipality of São Sebastião, São Paulo State, Brazil
... and egg density for both species, as found in the present study, may be related to local climate characteristics, namely, a tropical rainy climate with fre- quent rainfall and no defined dry ...the egg ...
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Clonal amplification of Fasciola hepatica in Galba truncatula: within and between isolate variation of triclabendazole susceptible and resistant clones
... highest egg count was treated with TCBZ at 10 mg/kg whilst the other remained untreated (Table ...of egg producing adult parasites at the time of TCBZ ...
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Anthelmintic resistance in equine parasites: an epidemiological approach to build a framework for sustainable parasite control
... faecal egg count (FEC) ...in egg excretion over time (Oju & Mpoame, 2006; Rinaldi et ...faecal egg count (FEC) data and this may confound interpretation of the ...
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Heavy schistosomiasis associated with poor short term memory and slower reaction times in Tanzanian schoolchildren
... haematobium egg count per 10 ml Hookworm egg count per g Socioeconomic status indices Wealth house*** Possessions* School books School equipment School uniform Education tests Arithmetic[r] ...
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Breaking the Parasite life cycle
... The field study was established as a randomised block design. At day 23 the field was split with temporary electric fencing into eight areas consisting of two blocks measuring 60 m x 40 m that were then each further ...
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Senescence in immunity against helminth parasites predicts adult mortality in a wild mammal
... The density of strongyle nematode eggs present in faecal samples was determined using a modified McMaster technique (43, 44). Briefly, 3g of faecal sample was homogenized in 87ml of saturated salt solution using a pestle ...
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Efficacy of Praziquantel against Schistosoma haematobium in Dulshatalo village, western Ethiopia
... In this study, a cure rate of 86.8% was found 7 weeks post- treatment, which is comparable to the findings of similar studies conducted in Cameroon [30], Zimbabwe [31], north-east Ethiopia [25]. The egg ...
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Scheuerle, Miriam (2009): Anthelmintic resistance of Haemonchus Contortus and the famacha C-method as a tool to delay the development of anthelmintic resistance. Dissertation, LMU München: Tierärztliche Fakultät
... faecal egg count reduction (FECR) was less than 95% and the lower 95% confidence limit (CI) for the reduction was less than ...faecal egg counts (FEC) were higher after treatment than before, due to ...
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The detection and cccurrence of triclabendazole resistance in fasciola hepatica in sheep in England and Wales
... faecal egg count reduction method to detect TCBZ resistance, and thirdly to assess the prevalence of TCBZ resistance in ...faecal egg counts (FEC), coproantigen ELISA and a PCR-based assay, were ...
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Is There Any Evidence to Support the Use of Garlic as a Wormer for Dogs and Cats in the UK?
... value reported relates to. The authors appear to have compared treatment groups before treatment application and not after. However it is possible that they have used ‘within treatment differences in egg ...
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The reliability of a questionnaire-based self-diagnosis in estimating the prevalence of schistosoma haematobium in Kwale District
... These results suggest that self-diagnosis is a reliable method of assessing prevalence before treatment and that despite the infection in terms of egg count being reduced by treatment, m[r] ...
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Nematode resistance to common anthelmintics in naturally infected goats flocks of coastal Tamil nadu, India
... faecal egg count reduction test or in vitro egg hatch and larval development assays 13,14,15,16 ...faecal egg count reduction test (FECRT) 17 is recommended by the World Association for ...
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The control of gastrointestinal sheep nematodes with tanniferous forage plants
... The most commonly reported effect of tanniferous fodder plants is a substantially decreased faecal egg count (Hoste et al., 2006). Although this effect can be of great importance with respect to pasture ...
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