The efficacy of an albendazole-medicated block in controlling sheep nematodes in Xinjiang province, north-west China

Vet Res Commun. 1996;20(5):427-35. doi: 10.1007/BF00419180.

Abstract

Medicated feed-blocks containing 2 mg/kg albendazole were fed for 12 days to ewe-lambs naturally infected with nematode worms in north-west China. The cumulative total average intake of albendazole was 15 mg/kg body weight. This treatment was compared with a single oral drench of 15 mg/kg albendazole and with no treatment. Both albendazole treatments were 99% effective in reducing the total strongyle egg counts. The medicated block was 100% effective in reducing the total trichostrongylid worm count, although only 86.4% of the sheep consumed an adequate amount. The single drench was 97% effective. Under the management conditions available to sheep herders in the northern provinces of China, albendazole-medicated feed blocks used at strategic times could effectively control trichostrongylid nematodes.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Albendazole / administration & dosage
  • Albendazole / therapeutic use*
  • Animal Feed
  • Animals
  • Anthelmintics / administration & dosage
  • Anthelmintics / therapeutic use*
  • China
  • Female
  • Food Additives
  • Nematoda / isolation & purification
  • Nematode Infections / drug therapy
  • Nematode Infections / prevention & control
  • Nematode Infections / veterinary*
  • Parasite Egg Count
  • Sheep
  • Sheep Diseases*
  • Tablets
  • Trichostrongylosis / drug therapy
  • Trichostrongylosis / prevention & control
  • Trichostrongylosis / veterinary
  • Trichostrongylus / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Anthelmintics
  • Food Additives
  • Tablets
  • Albendazole