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

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

dc.contributor.advisor	Krecek, R.C.	en
dc.contributor.email	upetd@ais.up.ac.za	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