Worm-free Merino yearlings were dosed with either a mixture of infective larvae of Trichostrongylus axei and Ostertagia circumcincta or with O. circumcincta only, and challenged 90-93 days later with infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus. Neither of these methods protected sheep against challenged and slight protection was afforded sheep predosed with T. axei and O. circumcincta and challeng...

sixty sheep abomasums were randomly collected from shahrekord abattoir between april and september (2006). age and sex of the sheep were registered. all of the abomasums were transported to laboratory, nematodes, which were presented inside them, collected, and after calculating, their species and genus, were specified. abomasums that were contaminated by ostertagia or had gross damages were se...

The seasonal incidence of helminth infestation on a farm in the Transvaal Highveld was determined by the slaughter of tracer lambs exposed on pasture for periods of approximately 6 weeks. Haemonchus contortus, the most prevalent nematode, was recovered in the greatest numbers from January--May 1974. Peak counts of Ostertagia circumcincta were made during March and April 1974 and in January 1975...

The first internal transcribed spacer DNA (ITS-1) (rDNA) and the mitochondrial (mt) DNA-derived cytochrome oxidase I gene (COX-1) were enzymatically amplified, cloned and sequenced from 6 nominal species of Ostertagiinae as well as Haemonchus contortus and Haemonchus placei. The portion of the COX-1 gene analyzed was 393 base pairs (bp) in length and contained 33 within species polymorphic base...

The increasing number of sheep (Ovis aries) in the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) herding area in North Finland and supplementary winter feeding of reindeer in corrals shared with sheep causes potential for crossinfection of gastrointestinal nematodes between reindeer and sheep. The aim of this study was to elucidate this potential. The study included 46 animals, of which 12 reindeer and...

Gastrointestinal nematodes of small ruminants are one of the major causes of productivity loss.This study was carried out to determine the correlation between the prevalence, seasonal incidence and geographical distribution January 12, 2011of abomasal worm infection of native sheep in 3 different climatic zones of Iran, suitable for animal husbandry. From March 2008 to February 2009 the content...

Exsheathed infective larvae (L3) of 16 species of nematodes were tested for infectivity in either sheep or cattle after they had been frozen and stored in 0,09% NaCl solution in the gas phase of liquid nitrogen for periods of up to 59 months. A mean of greater than 90% of the L3 of Haemonchus contortus, Ostertagia circumcincta, Trichostrongylus axei, Trichostrongylus colubriformis, Nematodirus ...

exsheathing fluid (ef) and excretory-secretory products (es) of infective third-stage cultured larvae ofostertagia circumcincta were analysed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (sdspage). five and seven predominant proteins were found in the ef and es products, respectively. immunoblotting by sheep pre-infection serum did not react with any of the ef and es proteins, b...

Fifty-thousand infective larvae of Trichostrongylus axei dosed to 7-9-month-old Merinos protected them against a subsequent challenge with 50 000 infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus. Protection varied with the period between an initial dosage of T. axei and challenge with H. contortus as follows: After 90 days it was more than 80% effective in more than 80% of sheep; at 119 and 180 days th...

Organisms used in risk assessment of pesticides must be the most sensitive ones to pesticides exposure. The aim of this study was to observe the effect of two commercial pesticide products (containing glyphosate and tolylfluanid) to larval stages of parasites Cooperia curticei, Ostertagia circumcincta, Haemonchus contortus and Trichostrongylus axei. There were two concentrations tested for each...