The role of epidemiological knowledge and grazing management for helminth control in small ruminants

被引:116
作者
Barger, IA [1 ]
机构
[1] Consultant Livestock Parasitologist, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia
关键词
epidemiology; grazing management; anthelmintic; control; resistance;
D O I
10.1016/S0020-7519(98)00176-3
中图分类号
R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;
摘要
There is no single requirement more crucial to the rational and sustainable control of helminth parasites in grazing animals than a comprehensive knowledge of the epidemiology of the parasite as it interacts with the host in a specific climatic, management and production environment. In its absence, anthelmintic treatment is either given suppressively, which provokes resistance, or therapeutically, which risks clinical disease and production losses. Sustainable parasite-control programmes require knowledge of seasonal larval availability, origin of larvae contributing to any peaks and climatic requirements for worm egg hatching, larval development and survival. Control measures based on this knowledge include strategic anthelmintic treatments and various forms of grazing management. While these measures can reduce the frequency of anthelmintic treatment required, their effect on selection for drench resistance is more problematical, unless they can be combined with other forms of control to reduce our current dependence on anthelmintics. (C) 1998 Australian Society for Parasitology. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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