Treatment of small lungworm infestation in sheep by using moxidectin

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 329-336

  Papadopoulos, E ^a   Sotiraki, S ^a   Himonas, C ^a   Fthenakis, G C ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Control methods Nematoda; Lungworms; Moxidectin; Sheep Nematoda

Indexed keywords

MOXIDECTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOCAULUS OCREATUS; DRUG EFFICACY; FECES ANALYSIS; INFESTATION; LARVA; LUNG INFECTION; MUELLERIUS CAPILLARIS; NEOSTRONGYLUS LINEARIS; NONHUMAN; PROTOSTRONGYLUS RUFESCENS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; FECES; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LUNG; MACROLIDES; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRACHEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MUELLERIUS CAPILLARIS; NEMATODA; OCREATUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 2342616721     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.02.026     Document Type: Article

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