Repeated high doses of avermectins cause prolonged sterilisation, but do not kill, Onchocerca ochengi adult worms in African cattle

Filaria Journal

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  deC Bronsvoort, Barend M ^a,d   Renz, Alfons ^b,e   Tchakouté, Virginia ^a   Tanya, Vincent N ^c,f   Ekale, David ^b   Trees, Alexander J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c Section Coton   (Cameroon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERMECTIN; DECTAMAX; DORAMECTIN; IVERMECTIN; TETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA OCHENGI; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; WORM INFECTION;

EID: 26844494429     PISSN: 14752883     EISSN: 14752883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2883-4-8     Document Type: Article

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