Trichostrongyle worm infection in cattle: Ostertagiasis—Effect of a field outbreak on production, with a review of the disease syndromes, problems of diagnosis and treatment

Abstract

Extract The problem of parasitism in cattle in New Zealand has been largely neglected, except in acute disease outbreaks. Losses, apparently due to chronic or subclinical parasitic gastro-enteritis, have been either undiagnosed or ignored, or the measures required to prevent these losses have been considered uneconomic or impractical. This latter view can perhaps be attributed to the low efficacy of anthelmintics previously available. Now, at a time when greatly improved standards of prophylaxis and treatment are offered by the new broad-spectrum anthelmintics, new difficulties in control have become apparent.