Potential New "Ground-Breaking" Treatment
USDA ARS recently announced a potential new "ground-breaking" treatment for internal parasites in small ruminants. "When the treatment was given to infected sheep at Virginia Tech there was a rapid and dramatic reduction of parasite reproduction and survival, without any negative effect observed in the sheep." said Dr. Anne Zajac, professor of parasitology at Virginia Tech's Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. The new treatment is Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)
Review of Anthelmintic Resistance
Dr. Ray Kaplan from the University of Georgia recently authored a publication on anthelmintic resistance: Biology, Epidemiology ,Diagnosis, and Management of Anthelmintic Resistance in Gastrointestinal Nematodes of Livestock. The key points of his article are: Anthelmintic resistance is a severe and worsening problem worldwide. Anthelmintic resistance is natural evolutionary process that is impossible to prevent, but the rate can be substantially reduced by modifying strategi
