An apparatus for the restraint of sheep during infestation with schistosomes

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Van Wyk, Jan Aucamp

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Published by The Government Printer, Pretoria

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With this adjustable apparatus sheep aged from five months to five years and varying in mass from 16-95 kg could be restrained effectively. Cercarial suspension was spilt by only 2/44 sheep during infestation with Schistosoma mattheei. Using a battery of seven cages, it was possible to infest 23 sheep, each for 30 minutes, in one day. No cercariae were more than 4 and a half hours old at the end of exposure.

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Veterinary medicine

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Van Wyk, JA 1975, 'An apparatus for the restraint of sheep during infestation with schistosomes’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 75-76.