Monitoring drug efficacy against gastrointestinal nematodes when faecal egg counts are low: Do the analytic sensitivity and the formula matter?

Parasitology Research

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 953-957

  Levecke, Bruno ^a   Rinaldi, Laura ^b   Charlier, Johannes ^a   Maurelli, Maria Paola ^b   Morgoglione, Maria Elena ^b   Vercruysse, Jozef ^a   Cringoli, Giuseppe ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALF (MAMMAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MONITORING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DRUG MONITORING; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 80052334634     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2338-z     Document Type: Article

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