Oral dosing with papaya latex is an effective anthelmintic treatment for sheep infected with Haemonchus contortus

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Buttle, David J ^a   Behnke, Jerzy M ^b   Bartley, Yvonne ^c   Elsheikha, Hany M ^d   Bartley, David J ^c   Garnett, Martin C ^b   Donnan, Alison A ^c   Jackson, Frank ^c   Lowe, Ann ^b   Duce, Ian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; CIMETIDINE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; LATEX; PAPAYA LATEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING; HAEMONCHOSIS; IN VIVO CULTURE; LARVA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS; WORM INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; FECES; HAEMONCHUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PAPAYA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SHEEP DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

CARICA PAPAYA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; OVIS ARIES; RODENTIA; SUIDAE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CARICA; FECES; HAEMONCHIASIS; HAEMONCHUS; LATEX; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 79952559148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-36     Document Type: Article

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