While not an exciting topic, farmers cannot afford to ignore the risk of anthelmintic resistance and should utilise faecal ...

Farmers are being warned that routine wormer treatments are no longer considered reliable for treating lungworm in cattle, ...

AgResearch scientists have collected the first known data showing behavioural developmental impacts on lambs whose mothers ...

A new project being rolled out this year will test for resistance to worm dosing or anthelmintic resistance on Irish beef ...

A study has revealed a growing trend in the proportion of positive faecal worm counts (FWECs) among horses in the UK. Research which analysed quarterly surveillance data summaries of FWEC test results ...

In this study, the therapeutic efficacy of anthelmintic drugs was evaluated in individuals living in a rural community in Camamu County, Bahia, Brazil. All residents of a rural community called Zumbi ...

SCOPS promotes faecal egg counts (FECs) as the gold standard means to estimate the adult worm burden in sheep and to measure the efficacy of anthelmintic (wormer) treatments. However, FECs cannot ...

Diagnosis of neurotoxocariasis is based on the presence of a high titer of anti-Toxocara antibody in the cerebrospinal fluid or in the serum, presence of eosinophilia in the serum or cerebrospinal ...

The term ‘magic bullet’ is a scientific concept proposed by the German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich in 1907, describing a medicine that could specifically and efficiently target a disease without ...