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Cost-benefit ratio of anthelmintic treatment and its comparative efficacy in commercial dairy farms

Intestinal parasitic infection is one of the major challenges in obtaining optimal production and maintaining the health and welfare of all animals including cattle and buffaloes. Anti-parasitic treatments appear to be a reliable countermeasure. However, the effectiveness and selection of suitable a...

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Autores principales: Rashid, Muhammad, Zahra, Naveed, Chudhary, Amna, Rehman, Tauseef Ur, Aleem, Muhammad Tahir, Alouffi, Abdulaziz, Mohammed, Aymen, Rashid, Muhammad Imran, Ehsan, Muhammad, Malik, Muhammad Irfan, Hussain Dilber, Ghulam, Bakhsh, Amir, Almutairi, Mashal M.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9709480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36467634
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.1047497
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author Rashid, Muhammad
Zahra, Naveed
Chudhary, Amna
Rehman, Tauseef Ur
Aleem, Muhammad Tahir
Alouffi, Abdulaziz
Mohammed, Aymen
Rashid, Muhammad Imran
Ehsan, Muhammad
Malik, Muhammad Irfan
Hussain Dilber, Ghulam
Bakhsh, Amir
Almutairi, Mashal M.
author_facet Rashid, Muhammad
Zahra, Naveed
Chudhary, Amna
Rehman, Tauseef Ur
Aleem, Muhammad Tahir
Alouffi, Abdulaziz
Mohammed, Aymen
Rashid, Muhammad Imran
Ehsan, Muhammad
Malik, Muhammad Irfan
Hussain Dilber, Ghulam
Bakhsh, Amir
Almutairi, Mashal M.
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description Intestinal parasitic infection is one of the major challenges in obtaining optimal production and maintaining the health and welfare of all animals including cattle and buffaloes. Anti-parasitic treatments appear to be a reliable countermeasure. However, the effectiveness and selection of suitable anthelmintics require situational assessments in a given locality. In the current study, the efficacy and impact of benzimidazole (albendazole) were assessed in a total of 400 (100 each) on the performance of buffaloes, buffalo-heifer, cattle, and cattle-heifers at two commercial dairy farms in the Province of Punjab, Pakistan. Additionally, the cost-benefit ratio was calculated by assessing the inputs (medication, feed, and labor cost) and outputs (milk and weight gain). The qualitative and quantitative examination of helminth eggs in each type of animal indicated a prevalence of 73.3, 78.3, 76.6, and 85.0% in cattle, cattle-heifers, buffaloes, and buffaloes-heifers, respectively. Specifically, a highest rate (10.0–13.3%) of Haemonchus sp. infection was only observed in cattle and heifers, while Fasciola sp. infections (10.0–11.6%) were the most often found species in buffaloes and heifers. The highest anthelmintic impacts (egg per gram of feces, p < 0.001) were observed on day 14 post-medication. Until 60 days of post-anthelmintic treatment, an average increase of 0.8 and 0.7 L in milk production per day in cattle and buffaloes, respectively while a total of 11.45 and 9.45 kg body weight were noticed in cattle-heifer and buffaloes-heifer, respectively. Cumulative cost-benefit analysis indicated a positive correlation between treated and non-treated animals. These findings reiterate the importance of anthelmintic drugs in reducing the impacts of parasites on the productivity, health, and well-being of an animal under high infection challenges.
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spelling pubmed-97094802022-12-01 Cost-benefit ratio of anthelmintic treatment and its comparative efficacy in commercial dairy farms Rashid, Muhammad Zahra, Naveed Chudhary, Amna Rehman, Tauseef Ur Aleem, Muhammad Tahir Alouffi, Abdulaziz Mohammed, Aymen Rashid, Muhammad Imran Ehsan, Muhammad Malik, Muhammad Irfan Hussain Dilber, Ghulam Bakhsh, Amir Almutairi, Mashal M. Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Intestinal parasitic infection is one of the major challenges in obtaining optimal production and maintaining the health and welfare of all animals including cattle and buffaloes. Anti-parasitic treatments appear to be a reliable countermeasure. However, the effectiveness and selection of suitable anthelmintics require situational assessments in a given locality. In the current study, the efficacy and impact of benzimidazole (albendazole) were assessed in a total of 400 (100 each) on the performance of buffaloes, buffalo-heifer, cattle, and cattle-heifers at two commercial dairy farms in the Province of Punjab, Pakistan. Additionally, the cost-benefit ratio was calculated by assessing the inputs (medication, feed, and labor cost) and outputs (milk and weight gain). The qualitative and quantitative examination of helminth eggs in each type of animal indicated a prevalence of 73.3, 78.3, 76.6, and 85.0% in cattle, cattle-heifers, buffaloes, and buffaloes-heifers, respectively. Specifically, a highest rate (10.0–13.3%) of Haemonchus sp. infection was only observed in cattle and heifers, while Fasciola sp. infections (10.0–11.6%) were the most often found species in buffaloes and heifers. The highest anthelmintic impacts (egg per gram of feces, p < 0.001) were observed on day 14 post-medication. Until 60 days of post-anthelmintic treatment, an average increase of 0.8 and 0.7 L in milk production per day in cattle and buffaloes, respectively while a total of 11.45 and 9.45 kg body weight were noticed in cattle-heifer and buffaloes-heifer, respectively. Cumulative cost-benefit analysis indicated a positive correlation between treated and non-treated animals. These findings reiterate the importance of anthelmintic drugs in reducing the impacts of parasites on the productivity, health, and well-being of an animal under high infection challenges. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9709480/ /pubmed/36467634 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.1047497 Text en Copyright © 2022 Rashid, Zahra, Chudhary, Rehman, Aleem, Alouffi, Mohammed, Rashid, Ehsan, Malik, Hussain Dilber, Bakhsh and Almutairi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Veterinary Science
Rashid, Muhammad
Zahra, Naveed
Chudhary, Amna
Rehman, Tauseef Ur
Aleem, Muhammad Tahir
Alouffi, Abdulaziz
Mohammed, Aymen
Rashid, Muhammad Imran
Ehsan, Muhammad
Malik, Muhammad Irfan
Hussain Dilber, Ghulam
Bakhsh, Amir
Almutairi, Mashal M.
Cost-benefit ratio of anthelmintic treatment and its comparative efficacy in commercial dairy farms
title Cost-benefit ratio of anthelmintic treatment and its comparative efficacy in commercial dairy farms
title_full Cost-benefit ratio of anthelmintic treatment and its comparative efficacy in commercial dairy farms
title_fullStr Cost-benefit ratio of anthelmintic treatment and its comparative efficacy in commercial dairy farms
title_full_unstemmed Cost-benefit ratio of anthelmintic treatment and its comparative efficacy in commercial dairy farms
title_short Cost-benefit ratio of anthelmintic treatment and its comparative efficacy in commercial dairy farms
title_sort cost-benefit ratio of anthelmintic treatment and its comparative efficacy in commercial dairy farms
topic Veterinary Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9709480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36467634
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.1047497
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