High impact information on Ostertagiasis

• Ostertagiasis reduced or abolished the stimulatory effects of histamine [1].
• Evaluation of pepsinogen, gastrin and antibody response in diagnosing ostertagiasis [2].
• The older anthelmintics, levamisole, morantel tartrate, thiabendazole, coumaphos, haloxon and phenothiazine, are effective against the adults and to some extent the developing stages of O. ostertagi so that they can be used to treat Type I ostertagiasis [3].
• Serum gastrin levels are, generally, increased in animals with ostertagiasis [4].
• These initial data indicate that a yearling calf, grazing on pasture, with a serum pepsinogen concentration greater than 68 ng/ml (2,900 mU of tyrosine/ml) should be examined for ostertagiasis [5].

Chemical compound and disease context of Ostertagiasis

• The treatment of ostertagiasis type II in cattle, using fenbendazole in feed blocks [6].
• Studies on the control of bovine ostertagiasis using a morantel sustained release bolus [7].
• Effects of levamisole and human chorionic gonadotrophin on ostertagiasis in western Victoria, Australia [8].
• A study on the effects of tactical drenchings with a benzimidazole against ostertagiasis in calves [9].

Gene context of Ostertagiasis

• Differences in the course of gastrin and pepsinogen late in the grazing season can be correlated with larval inhibition and the possibility of ostertagiasis Type II [2].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Ostertagiasis

• During the grazing season one group had received fenbendazole at fortnightly intervals to suppress trichostrongyle infections, one received a morantel sustained release bolus before grazing to limit trichostrongyle contamination of the pasture, and the control group was only medicated when heavy infections caused clinical type 1 ostertagiasis [10].

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