Chemotherapy of caecal coccidiosis: efficacy of toltrazuril, sulphaquinoxaline/pyrimethamine and amprolium/ethopabate, given in drinking water, against field isolates of Eimeria tenella.

Abstract

Treatment with toltrazuril, sulphaquinoxaline/pyrimethamine and amprolium/ethopabate prevented mortality in chickens infected with field isolates of Eimeria tenella. Amprolium/ethopabate was the most effective drug in reducing lesions caused by the parasites. Few oocysts of E tenella were produced in birds medicated with sulphaquinoxaline/pyrimethamine or amprolium/ethopabate and none in those medicated with toltrazuril.

• Authors: H D Chapman
• Journal: Research in veterinary science (Res Vet Sci) Vol. 46 Issue 3 Pg. 419-20 (May 1989) ISSN: 0034-5288 [Print] England
• PMID: 2740635 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Coccidiostats
• Drug Combinations
• Sulfanilamides
• Triazines
• Ethopabate
• Amprolium
• toltrazuril
• Sulfaquinoxaline
• Pyrimethamine

Topics

• Administration, Oral
• Amprolium (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Animals
• Cecal Diseases (drug therapy, parasitology, veterinary)
• Chickens (parasitology)
• Coccidiosis (drug therapy, veterinary)
• Coccidiostats (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Drug Combinations
• Drug Evaluation
• Ethopabate (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Poultry Diseases (drug therapy, parasitology)
• Pyrimethamine (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Sulfanilamides (therapeutic use)
• Sulfaquinoxaline (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Triazines (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)