Evaluation of anthelmintic properties of extracts from some plants used as livestock dewormers by pastoralist and smallholder farmers in Kenya against Heligmosomoides polygyrus infections in mice

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 215-226

  Githiori, John B ^a,b   Höglund, Johan ^b   Waller, Peter J ^b   Baker, R Leyden ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anthelmintic properties; Heligmosomoides polygyrus; Mouse; Plant extracts

Indexed keywords

AFRAMOMUM SANGUINEUM EXTRACT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; AZADIRACHTA INDICA EXTRACT; BANMITH; DODONEA ANGUSTIFOLIA EXTRACT; EMBELIN; HILDEBRANDTIA SEPALOSA EXTRACT; IVERMECTIN; MYRSINE AFRICANA EXTRACT; PIPERAZINE CITRATE; PLANT EXTRACT; PYRANTEL EMBONATE; RAPANEA MELANOPHLOEOS EXTRACT; SANTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; MALAYSIA; MALE; MOUSE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORM EXPULSION;

AFRAMOMUM; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CAPRA HIRCUS; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; MYRSINE; MYRSINE AFRICANA; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; RAPANEA;

EID: 0346056906     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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