Background: The use of plants, and occasionally fungi, to treat cure animals or supplement their feeding for livestock was widespread, globally. In some parts the world this remains a key practice, but there is increasing veterinary pharmaceuticals which can have negative effect on wider environment. Meanwhile, traditional knowledge being lost at great rate, before it has been properly recorded...

The molecular negotiations engaged between hosts and parasites have resulted in the evolution of highly specialized interspecific relationships which an array PDMs delimit conditions that render host permissive for parasite.An underappreciated characteristic some anthelmintics, such as ivermectin albendazole, whose mechanisms action remain incompletely resolved, is their ability to block releas...

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Aim: The present study was aimed to determine the resistance against albendazole, fenbendazole, levamisole and closantel in gastrointestinal (GI) nematodes of sheep. Introduction: Anthelmintics are used traditionally as an integral part of helminthic control strategies for grazing livestock to prevent production losses from parasitic infections. The continuous and indiscriminate use of the same...

During the past decade in South Africa there has been a continual increase in sheep of strains of gastrointestinal helminths resistant to the modern anthelmintics. Five strains of Haemonchus contortus are described in this paper. Despite the fact that 2 of the 5 strains were tested for susceptibility only to ivermectin, a total of 10 instances of resistance were found. Four of the 5 strains wer...

BACKGROUND The use of complementary and alternative medicine including herbal medicine is increasing in many countries including Ghana. However, there is paucity of research on the perspectives of patrons of herbal medicine regarding the facilitators and barriers of herbal medicine use. This study sought to investigate the facilitators and barriers of herbal medicine among Ghanaian adults who u...

Because of the rapid development nanotechnologies, materials, in particular, solid dispersions (SDs), which are actively introduced into life modern man, have been obtained. Special progress this area is observed industry and medicine. The use SDs agriculture lagging far behind, despite growing number scientific papers on topic. At same time, prospects for introduction agro-industrial complex o...