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

dc.contributor.advisorKrecek, R.C.en
dc.contributor.emailupetd@ais.up.ac.zaen
dc.contributor.postgraduateVatta, Adriano Francisen
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-07T19:21:51Z
dc.date.available2003-11-11en
dc.date.available2013-09-07T19:21:51Z
dc.date.created1995-01-01en
dc.date.issued2004-11-11en
dc.date.submitted2003-02-23en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2001.en
dc.description.abstractA novel clinical assay for the assessment and subsequent treatment of Haemonchus infection in sheep to slow down the development of anthelmintic resistance – the FAMACHAen
dc.description.availabilityunrestricteden
dc.description.departmentVeterinary Tropical Diseasesen
dc.identifier.citationveloped, 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 theen
dc.identifier.otherFAMACHAen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232003-233622/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/30571
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_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 FAMACen
dc.subjectBody condition scoreen
dc.subjectEye colour charten
dc.subjectAnthelmintic resistanceen
dc.subjectClinical assayen
dc.subjectFAMACHA©en
dc.subjectSheepen
dc.subjectHaemonchus sppen
dc.subjectFaecal nematode and trematode egg countsen
dc.subjectGoatsen
dc.subjectHaematocriten
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.titleIncidence, clinical appraisal and treatment of haemonchosis in small ruminants of resource-poor areas in South Africaen
dc.typeDissertationen

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