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Gastrointestinal Nematodes Of Ovis Aries In Eastern Cape, South Africa And An Evaluation Of Current Anthelmintic Procedures, Melyssa Rowell
Gastrointestinal Nematodes Of Ovis Aries In Eastern Cape, South Africa And An Evaluation Of Current Anthelmintic Procedures, Melyssa Rowell
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Humans have known about helminth infections since ancient times. Today half of the human population is plagued by a nematode infection. Nematodes are responsible for billions of dollars in global crop damage annually and have had devastating effects on the global livestock industry. Due to the lack of a vaccine, and only a handful of approved classes of anthelmintics, nematode resistance has become a serious global phenomenon, and the South African commercial sheep industry has been one of the worst affected worldwide. The current study used fecal float parasitology to determine the nematode species found on a commercial sheep farm …