Effect of feeding urea-molasses blocks with incorporated fenbendazole on grazing dairy heifers naturally infected with gastrointestinal nematodes

Journal of the South African Veterinary Association

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 49-52

  Waruiru, R M ^a   Onyando, C O ^b   Machuka, R O ^b  

^a University of Nairobi Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Kenya)

^b Central Vet Investigation Lab   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cattle; Fenbendazole; Gastrointestinal parasitism; Kenya; Urea molasses blocks

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; FENBENDAZOLE; MOLASSES; UREA; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BUNOSTOMUM; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG RESPONSE; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENUS; GRAZING; HAEMONCHUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KENYA; LARVA; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BUNOSTOMUM; COOPERIA; HAEMONCHUS; NEMATODA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; VERMES;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FECES; FEMALE; FENBENDAZOLE; KENYA; MOLASSES; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; UREA; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0142214398     PISSN: 10199128     EISSN: 22249435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/jsava.v74i2.504     Document Type: Article

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