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Multiple anthelmintic resistance in Southern Brazil sheep flocks

2017; Colégio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria; Volume: 26; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1984-29612017058

1984-2961

Plínio Aguiar de Oliveira, Beatriz Riet-Correa, Pablo Estima-Silva, Ana Carolina Barreto Coelho, Bianca L. Santos, Marco André Paldês da Costa, Jerônimo Lopes Ruas, Ana Lúcia Schild,

Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics

Gastrointestinal parasites represent an important cause of reduced productivity of sheep worldwide. As anthelmintic are still the main control tool for these parasites, this work evaluated the efficacy of commercially available active principles in 22 sheep flocks in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In each farm 10 sheep were randomly distributed in seven groups with the following treatments: abamectin; albendazole; closantel; levamisole; monepantel; trichlorphon and no anthelmintic (control). All flocks showed resistance to at least three anthelmintics and in 20 farms only two products demonstrated efficacy for parasitic control. In two farms, there was no susceptibility to the six active principles tested. The results of this study provide evidence that the common commercially available anthelmintic are not assuring effective chemical control of gastrointestinal parasitic infections in ovine flocks in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul. Monepantel, the newest introduced drug in the Brazilian market was not effective in 18% of the flocks tested, confirming that the parasitic resistance can be established quickly after the introduction of new molecules mainly when alternative program of parasite control is not performed.