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Oral dosing with papaya latex is an effective anthelmintic treatment for sheep infected with Haemonchus contortus

BACKGROUND: The cysteine proteinases in papaya latex have been shown to have potent anthelmintic properties in monogastric hosts such as rodents, pigs and humans, but this has not been demonstrated in ruminants. METHODS: In two experiments, sheep were infected concurrently with 5,000 infective larva...

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Autores principales: Buttle, David J, Behnke, Jerzy M, Bartley, Yvonne, Elsheikha, Hany M, Bartley, David J, Garnett, Martin C, Donnan, Alison A, Jackson, Frank, Lowe, Ann, Duce, Ian R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21406090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-4-36