Anthelmintic resistance in Swedish sheep flocks based on a comparison of the results from the faecal egg count reduction test and resistant allele frequencies of the β-tubulin gene

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 60-68

  Höglund, Johan ^a   Gustafsson, Katarina ^b   Ljungström, Britt Louise ^c   Engström, Annie ^a   Donnan, Alison ^d   Skuce, Philip ^d  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Animal Health Service   (Sweden)

^c Vidilab ^*  (Sweden)

^d MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Tubulin gene; Anthelmintic resistance; Faecal egg count reduction test; Haemonchus; Haemonchus specific PCR; Nematoda; Teladorsagia; Trichostrongylus

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; BETA TUBULIN; IVERMECTIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EWE; FECAL EGG COUNT REDUCTION TEST; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GRAZING; HAEMONCHOSIS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; INFECTION RATE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SHEEP; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TELADORSAGIA; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; HELMINTHS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SWEDEN; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; HAEMONCHUS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 63149088766     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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