Faecal egg count reduction test results
Rapid assessment of faecal egg count and faecal egg count reduction through composite sampling in cattle
... pooled faecal samples using different pool sizes and to evaluate the pen-side use of a portable FEC-kit for the assessment of FEC on cattle ...individual faecal samples from heifers were collected before ...
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Determination of anthelmintic resistance of Haemonchus contortus to three classes of anthelmintics in a Kenyan sheep flock based on results from faecal egg count reduction test
... flock. Faecal Egg Count Reduction Test (FECRT) was now ...tested. Faecal egg counts (FEC) and reductions after deworming were analysed according to the AHs ...performed. ...
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Preserving new anthelmintics: a simple method for estimating faecal egg count reduction test (FECRT) confidence limits when efficacy and/or nematode aggregation is high.
... scenario. In each scenario true efficacy was 95%. Method-1 was separate control and treated groups both counted post-treatment. Method-2 was pre- and post-treatment counts of the same animals. Method-3 required three ...
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A quantitative approach to improving the analysis of faecal worm egg count data
... returns results that are more heavily influenced by the prior, which given the bias towards higher efficacy in the datasets relative to the Beta(1, 1) prior would result in a tendency towards lower values of ...
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Faecal Cyathostomin Egg Count distribution and efficacy of anthelmintics against cyathostomins in Italy: a matter of geography?
... In central Italy it is interesting to note that while FBZ was ineffective in almost all yards from Lazio region, this was not the case in the other two regions. This apparent discrepancy may be accounted for by the fact ...
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Evaluating the effectiveness of trematocides against Fasciola gigantica and amphistomes infections in cattle, using faecal egg count reduction tests in Iringa Rural and Arumeru Districts, Tanzania
... Post-treatment faecal sample collection was done on the day of treatment and again at 7, 14 and 28 days, from each ...using faecal egg count reduction (FECR) ...
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Are faecal egg counts approaching their 'sell-by' date?
... these results may be misleading if large populations of this species are present, unless a complete reduction in FEC is ...account faecal volume which can be expected to change due to the rapid ...
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Investigating anthelmintic efficacy against gastrointestinal nematodes in cattle by considering appropriate probability distributions for faecal egg count data
... the con fi dence intervals derived by the Delta Method, rely on cor- relations of natural logarithmic-transformed FEC data being eval- uated; but this would not be possible if zero-valued FECs were obtained as part of ...
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Investigating anthelmintic efficacy against gastrointestinal nematodes in cattle by considering appropriate probability distributions for faecal egg count data
... percentage reduction estimates, even in the presence of small sample sizes ( Cabaret and Berrag, 2004; Lester and Matthews, 2013; Lester et ...equine faecal egg count data ( Denwood, 2010; ...
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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
... treatment, faecal samples were significantly less often ...FECR results of individual horses with their pre-treatment FEC, it was found that high pre-treatment FEC were associated with a significantly ...
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Haemonchus contortus resistance to monepantel in sheep: fecal egg count reduction tests and randomized controlled trials
... fecal egg count reduction and critical tests were performed on a Haemonchus contortus strain collected from this ...were reduction in fecal egg counts on post-treatment days (PTD) 0, 2, ...
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Hierarchical modelling of faecal egg counts to assess anthelmintic efficacy
... in faecal samples is a widely used diagnostic method to evaluate parasite ...resulting egg counts are multiplied by a specific correction factor to estimate the mean parasite ...variable results as ...
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Zero-inflated hierarchical models for faecal egg counts to assess anthelmintic efficacy
... conventional faecal egg count reduction test and other methods such as bootstrap and quasi-Poisson ...The results show the Bayesian models are more robust and they perform well ...
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A user friendly software to easily count Anopheles egg batches
... The results show that the proposed automatic method produces results that are close to the ground truth, and by making a few adjustments, mainly in the regions of debris and the paper’s grid lines, these ...
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Day to day fluctuation of point of care circulating cathodic antigen test scores and faecal egg counts in children infected with Schistosoma mansoniin Ethiopia
... cassette test that involves only urine collection seems less challenging and more feasible for diagnosing ...urine-CCA results compared to Kato- Katz over the three days of ...cassette test would ...
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Reducing sampling error in faecal egg counts from black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
... t Faecal egg counts (FECs) are commonly used for the non-invasive assessment of parasite load within ...We test whether a delay in sample collection can affect FECs, and estimate the number of ...
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A standardised faecal collection protocol for intestinal helminth egg counts in Asian elephants, Elephas maximus
... Our results have enabled us to outline a faecal fl otation protocol which considers pre-analytic sources of variation, providing a more reliable estimate of parasite faecal egg ...helminth ...
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Effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer with a faecal occult blood test, in Finland
... the results of Mandel et al , 1 who found only a 6% reduction in CRC mortality after 13 years of follow-up with biennial screen- ing, and the reduction was 21% in a later ...cant reduction in ...
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The faecal occult blood (FOB) test
... stick to collect a sample from a different area of your bowel motion. Spread it thinly over the second window. Once you’ve completed both windows, seal the flap on the test card. Wipe the cardboard sticks with ...
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Historical Results By Count
... 116 Potomac Valley Audubon Society Effort. Year Count Date Num.[r] ...
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