faecal egg counts
Effect of season and age on blood minerals, liver enzyme levels, and faecal egg counts in Nguni goats of South Africa
... and faecal egg counts substantiates the physical examination and, coupled with medical history, provides an excellent basis for estimation of severity of cases (Piccione et ...of faecal ...
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Are faecal egg counts approaching their 'sell-by' date?
... Control of gastrointestinal nematode parasitism is vital to the sustainability of pastoral systems. Faecal egg counts (FEC) have been a well used tool in diagnosis of helminthoses and the need for ...
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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
... in faecal egg counts while using the urine-CCA cas- sette test (batch 32727) and the Kato-Katz thick smear for the diagnosis of ...and egg out puts in the diagnosis of ...
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A comparison of two different anthelmintic treatment regimens against natural gastrointestinal nematode infections on two Lithuanian sheep farms
... as faecal egg counts FEC or specific antibody levels), pathophysiological markers (such as diarrhoea and anaemia), production parameters (such as weight gain or milk and wool production), and/or mor- ...
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A standardised faecal collection protocol for intestinal helminth egg counts in Asian elephants, Elephas maximus
... Traditional faecal flotation methods which aim to quantify parasite burden, such as the McMaster egg counting technique, are widely used in veterinary medicine, agricultural management and wildlife ...
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A comparison of helminth infections as assessed through coprological analysis and adult worm burdens in a wild host
... unexpected, with previous reports in wild boar (Gassó et al., 2015), domesticated horses (Nielsen et al., 2010) and humans infected with Opisthorchis viverrini demonstrating low sensitivity of faecal egg ...
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A microsatellite polymorphism in the gamma interferon gene is associated with resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes in a naturally parasitised population of Soay sheep
... reduced faecal egg counts (FEC) are associated with an allele at a microsatellite locus located in the first intron of the interferon gamma gene (o(IFN)- γ ) in Soay sheep lambs and yearlings, ...
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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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Comparison of Worm Control Strategies in Grazing Sheep in Denmark
... on faecal egg counts was limited but peak pasture infectivity was reduced to less than 10% compared to the set-stocked group and weight gains of lambs were significantly better despite poor feed ...
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Anthelmintic-resistant nematodes in Irish commercial sheep flocks- the state of play
... procedure employed. It is not immediately clear why the incidences from the commercial MALDT were lower and further work would be required to directly compare methods. It is noted that in the assessment of LM resist- ...
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Parasitism and production in fleeceweight selected and control sheep : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Agricultural Science at Massey University
... In a two year study, faecal egg counts (as an indicator of resistance status) of FW and C sheep grazing naturally infected pasture were monitored. Liveweight gain and wool growth were measured in ...
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Nematode resistance to common anthelmintics in naturally infected goats flocks of coastal Tamil nadu, India
... Faecal egg count reduction tests were conducted on goat flocks in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India, to determine the efficiency of fenbendazole, levamisole and ivermectin given at recommended doses against ...
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Faecal Cyathostomin Egg Count distribution and efficacy of anthelmintics against cyathostomins in Italy: a matter of geography?
... a Faecal Egg Count Reduction Test (FECRT) evaluating the efficacy of fenben- dazole (FBZ), pyrantel (PYR), ivermectin (IVM) or moxidectin (MOX) as previously described ...Individual faecal samples ...
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Senescence in immunity against helminth parasites predicts adult mortality in a wild mammal
... (27). Counts of nematode eggs from faecal samples provide an important proxy of parasite burden ...(27). Faecal egg counts (FEC) ...
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Some aspects of ivermectin resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes of goats and sheep : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Massey University
... 1 : Nematode worm counts and faecal egg counts in lambs infected with either ivermectin-resistant or susceptible strains of T colubr?formis and left untreated or dosed with either iverme[r] ...
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Relationship between gastrointestinal (GI) nematode infection and immune response in dairy cows
... mean faecal egg counts over the trial period were ...mean faecal egg counts of 15 EPG in adult cows previously reported in Canterbury, New Zealand by Guerra ...higher ...
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A comprehensive evaluation of an ELISA for the diagnosis of the two most common ascarids in chickens using plasma or egg yolks
... Classical faecal egg counts (FEC) provide less reliable diagnostic information for nematode infections in ...in egg yolks are as good as plasma samples, so a non-invasive diagnosis is ...and ...
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Environmental contamination and transmission of Ascaris suum in Danish organic pig farms
... However, faecal egg counts may also not provide a true measure of infection levels as samples may be false positive due to ingestion of uninfective eggs through coprophagy and geophagy ...
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Breaking the Parasite life cycle
... I would like to take this time to thanks the eternal father for giving me health and strength throughout my journey of study.Let me say special thank you to all the persons involved and contributed towards my trial. ...
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Significantly higher faecal counts of the yeasts candida and saccharomyces identified in people with coeliac disease
... instructions: faecal specimen samples were collected in 50 ml conical tubes containing Formalin, culture and sensitivity media and nucleic acid extraction ...the faecal samples immediately after ...testing. ...
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