The most commonly used antinematodal drugs in human and veterinary medicine are cholinergic agonists: imidazothiazole (praziquantel) tetrahydropyrimidines (pyrantel, morantel, and oxantel), quaternary/tertiary amines (bephenium and tribendimidine), pyridines (methyridine), and the amino-acetonitrile derivatives (AADs). These antiparasitic drugs produce spastic paralysis of the nematodes by sele...

A 24-year-old Appaloosa gelding was evaluated for a 2-month history of pelvic limb incoordination. The gelding had been administered phenylbutazone (2 mg/kg PO q12h) for 1 week before admission, and no improvement was apparent. Two months before presentation, the gelding had been vaccinated against Eastern and Western equine encephalitis (EEE, WEE), tetanus, influenza, West Nile virus (WNV), an...

Osterman Lind, E. 2005. Prevalence and control of strongyle nematode infections o f horses in Sweden. Doctoral thesis. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7028-5 Strongyle nematodes constitute the most important group of helminths in horses. In this PhD project, based on five separate studies, the overall aim was to investigate the present parasite status of horses in Sweden and to determine the effica...

epidemiological features of soil transmitted helminthes were studied in six villages in isfahan area. the mean overall prevalence of ascariasis and trichostrongyliasis were 91.5% and 70.9% respectively with higher infection rate among females. mean prevalence of trichuris and hymenolepis nana were 73.8% and 5.4% respectively. prevalences of ascaris and trichuris did not fluctuate very much in v...