Managing anthelmintic resistance - Use of a combination anthelmintic and leaving some lambs untreated to slow the development of resistance to ivermectin

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 187, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 285-294

  Leathwick, D M ^a   Waghorn, T S ^a   Miller, C M ^a   Candy, P M ^a   Oliver, A M B ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anthelmintic resistance; Combination; Nematode; Refugia; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ABAMECTIN; IVERMECTIN; LEVAMISOLE; OXFENDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FIELD STUDY; LAMB; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIABILITY; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; SIMULATION; SPECIES REFUGE; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; IVERMECTIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

EID: 84860695926     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.12.021     Document Type: Article

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