Incidence, clinical appraisal and treatment of haemonchosis in small ruminants of resource-poor areas in South Africa

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dc.contributor.advisor Krecek, R.C. en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Vatta, Adriano Francis en
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-07T19:21:51Z
dc.date.available 2003-11-11 en
dc.date.available 2013-09-07T19:21:51Z
dc.date.created 1995-01-01 en
dc.date.issued 2004-11-11 en
dc.date.submitted 2003-02-23 en
dc.description Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2001. en
dc.description.abstract A novel clinical assay for the assessment and subsequent treatment of Haemonchus infection in sheep to slow down the development of anthelmintic resistance – the FAMACHA en
dc.description.availability unrestricted en
dc.description.department Veterinary Tropical Diseases en
dc.identifier.citation veloped, tested and validated in South Africa. The system is based on a colour chart with five colour categories depicting varying degrees of anaemia that are compared with the colour of the conjunctival mucous membranes of sheep. The animal is then scored from severely anaemic (pale) through anaemic to non-anaemic (red) and those animals considered in danger of succumbing to the effects of haemonchosis are treated. This method was tested in the present study in goats and sheep farmed under resource-poor conditions in South Africa. The diversity and predominance of nematode genera in goats and sheep at Rust de Winter, Gauteng Province, in goats at Impendle, KwaZulu-Natal Province, and in goats and sheep at Kraaipan, North-West Province, were determined by means of a longitudinal study of the nematode faecal egg counts (FECs) and differential third-stage larvae. The animals were bled for haematocrit determination, scored for pallor of ocular mucous membranes using the en
dc.identifier.other FAMACHA en
dc.identifier.upetdurl http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232003-233622/ en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30571
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights ©, system – has been developed, tested and validated in South Africa. The system is based on a colour chart with five colour categories depicting varying degrees of anaemia that are compared with the colour of the conjunctival mucous membranes of sheep. The animal is then scored from severely anaemic (pale) through anaemic to non-anaemic (red) and those animals considered in danger of succumbing to the effects of haemonchosis are treated. This method was tested in the present study in goats and sheep farmed under resource-poor conditions in South Africa. The diversity and predominance of nematode genera in goats and sheep at Rust de Winter, Gauteng Province, in goats at Impendle, KwaZulu-Natal Province, and in goats and sheep at Kraaipan, North-West Province, were determined by means of a longitudinal study of the nematode faecal egg counts (FECs) and differential third-stage larvae. The animals were bled for haematocrit determination, scored for pallor of ocular mucous membranes using the FAMAC en
dc.subject Body condition score en
dc.subject Eye colour chart en
dc.subject Anthelmintic resistance en
dc.subject Clinical assay en
dc.subject FAMACHA© en
dc.subject Sheep en
dc.subject Haemonchus spp en
dc.subject Faecal nematode and trematode egg counts en
dc.subject Goats en
dc.subject Haematocrit en
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.title Incidence, clinical appraisal and treatment of haemonchosis in small ruminants of resource-poor areas in South Africa en
dc.type Dissertation en


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