Efficacy of the nematode-trapping fungus Duddingtonia flagrans against three species of gastro-intestinal nematodes in laboratory faecal cultures from sheep and goats

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 227-234

  Waghorn, T S ^a   Leathwick, D M ^a   Chen, L Y ^a   Skipp, R A ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Duddingtonia flagrans; Goats; Haemonchus contortus; Ostertagia (Teladorsagia) circumcincta; Sheep; Trichostrongylus colubriformis

Indexed keywords

BENZIMIDAZOLE; DUDDINGTONIA FLAGRANS EXTRACT; LEVAMISOLE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DUDDINGTONIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GOAT DISEASE; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MALE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SHEEP DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; DUDDINGTONIA FLAGRANS; FUNGI; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

EID: 0347948567     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2003.09.018     Document Type: Article

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