Anthelmintic efficacy of Ricobendazole injectable against helminthosis in sheep

Abstract

Test of Ricobendazole used for treatment of moniesiosis was conducted in the farm «Krasny Put» in Pestravsk district of Samara region in June-July 2013. 40 lambs sponta- neously infected with Moniesia spp. were selected for testing. By strongilatosis of the gastrointestinal tract Ricobendazole was tested in the same farm in June July 2013 on 26 wedders (gelded rams) in the age of 1-1,5 years spontaneously infected with various spe- cies of Strongylata. By dictyocaulosis and other lung strongilatosis Ricobendazole was tested on 24 spontaneously infected sheep selected after examination of feces according to Berman method. Efficacy of Ricobendazole against various species of Anoplocephala is studied in June-August 2013 in farms of Samara region that are unfavorable in relation to avitellinosis and tisaniesiosis in sheep spontaneously infected with Avitellinae centri- punctata (12 heads) and Thisaniezia giardi (10 heads). By trichocephalosis the medicine is tested on different groups of sheep at the dose of 4, 6 and 8 mg/kg. Anthelmintic effi- cacy of Ricobendazole is studied by main helminthosis in sheep. Ricobendazole at the dose of 4 mg/kg showed 100 % efficacy against Nematodirus spp. and other Strongylata of gastrointestinal tract, Dictyocaulus filaria, 99,9 % - against Moniezia spp., 85,8 % - against Mullerius capillaris, 84,7 % - against Protostrongylus spp., 96,1 % - against Аvitellina centripunctata, 99,2 % - against Th. giardi and 73,9 % - against T. ovis.