DETECTION OF BENZIMIDAZOLE RESISTANCE IN SHEEP OF TAMLL NADU USING IN VITRO EGG HATCH ASSAY
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Date
2005-10
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Indian Society for Sheep and Goat Production and Utilization
Abstract
Many reports of drug resistance
involve the benzimidazole group of
anthelmintic (Hunt and Taylor, 1989) and
several techniques have been developed to
detect the presence of parasites resistant in
such animals (Taylor and Hunt, 1989). The
ovicidal properties of benzimidazoles were
exploited to detect resistance based on the
proportion of eggs failing to hatch in
solutions of increasing drug concentrations
(Le Jambre, 1976; Coles and Simkins, 1977).
However, only few reports on benzimidazole
resistance in sheep are available in Southern
India, particularly in Tamil Nadu. Hence, the
present study was designed to detect the
resistance to the most commonly used
anthelmintic viz. benzimidazole group of
drugs against the gastrointestinal parasites of
sheep by in vitro egg hatch assay using
albendazole as the reference drug.
Description
TNV_IJSR_2005_11(2)216-218
Keywords
Veterinary Science, Small Ruminants