Fecal egg count reduction and control trial determinations of anthelmintic efficacies for several parasiticides utilizing a single set of naturally infected calves

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 164, Issue 2-4, 2009, Pages 232-241

  Yazwinski, T A ^a   Tucker, C A ^a   Powell, J ^a   Reynolds, J ^a   Hornsby, P ^a   Johnson, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthelmintic efficacies; Benzimidazoles; Cattle; Macrocyclic lactones

Indexed keywords

FENBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; MOXIDECTIN; OXFENDAZOLE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BEEF CATTLE; CALF (BOVINE); CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERIA; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; COOPERIA PUNCTATA; COOPERIA SURNABADA; DRUG EFFICACY; FECES ANALYSIS; HAEMONCHUS; HAEMONCHUS PLACEI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LARVA; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; PARASITE EGG COUNT;

ANIMALIA; BOS; COOPERIA; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; COOPERIA PUNCTATA; COOPERIA SURNABADA; HAEMONCHUS; HAEMONCHUS PLACEI; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI;

EID: 70249087280     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.06.022     Document Type: Article

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