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Conference presentation
Can body condition score be used to refine worm control?
Published 2010
Sheep CRC Conference 2010, 20/10/2010–21/10/2010, Adelaide, Australia
Anthelmintics are typically used to control worms and combat their deleterious effects on productivity, but inappropriate use has resulted in widespread resistance of worms to available anthelmintic treatment groups (Sutherland and Scott 2010). Adoption of new management strategies is required to slow the development of anthelmintic resistance. One potential strategy includes leaving a proportion of a flock untreated, which allows non-resistant (susceptible) worms to survive and thus slows the rate at which resistant genes accumulate in the worm population (Kenyon et al. 2009). The most appropriate indicator for selecting sheep that are to remain untreated is not clear. It is widely believed that sheep with a high body condition score (BCS) are better able to cope with worms (i.e., they have higher worm resilience) than sheep with low BCS, but little field research has been undertaken to verify this. Worm resilience is the ability to maintain an acceptable level of production despite a worm burden (Bisset et al. 2001). Figure 1 demonstrates a hypothetical relationship between BCS and worm egg counts (WECs) for worm resilient and non-resilient sheep.
Conference presentation
Is drug efficacy best estimated by arithmetic or geometric means?
Published 2009
Australian Society for Parasitology & ARC/NHMRC research network for Parasitology conference, 12/07/2009–15/07/2009, Sydney, Australia
Conference presentation
Faecal egg count reduction test (FECRT): Arithmetic or Geometric means?
Published 2009
22nd Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology, 08/08/2009–13/08/2009, Calgary, Canada
Conference presentation
A risk management approach to using a new anthelmintic in Australian grazing management systems
Published 2009
22nd Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology, 08/08/2009–13/08/2009, Calgary, Canada
Conference presentation
Published 2007
21st International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP), 19/08/2007–23/08/2007, Ghent, Belgium
Conference presentation
Modelling the impact on anthelmintic resistance of refugia, drug type and drug combinations
Published 2004
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Society for Parasitology, 26/09/2004–30/09/2004, Fremantle, Western Australia
Conference presentation
Published 2002
New Zealand Society for Parasitology. Annual Meeting No. 31, 22/10/2002–23/10/2002, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Conference presentation
Published 2002
Australian Society for Parasitology. Annual Scientific Meeting, 29/09/2002–03/10/2002, Hobart, Australia