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  • Title: Consequences of the unusually warm and dry summer of 2003 in The Netherlands: poor development of free living stages, normal survival of infective larvae and long survival of adult gastrointestinal nematodes of sheep.
    Author: Eysker M, Bakker N, Kooyman FN, van der Linden D, Schrama C, Ploeger HW.
    Journal: Vet Parasitol; 2005 Nov 05; 133(4):313-21. PubMed ID: 16009492.
    Abstract:
    During 2003 a grazing study was performed at Utrecht University to evaluate evasive grazing and application of Duddingtonia flagrans for the control of parasitic gastroenteritis in sheep. However, the summer of 2003 (June-August) was unusually warm and dry. As a result the patterns of gastrointestinal nematode infections deviated from those observed in more average years. The proportion of eggs that developed to infective larvae was far lower than normal in July-August. On the other hand, survival of larvae that had developed before the middle of July was not affected compared to other years. In fact, severe haemonchosis was observed in (tracer) lambs grazed at the end of July on pastures that had been contaminated from 26-05 to 16-06 and from 16-06 to 07-07. Moreover, tracer lambs grazing in September on some of these plots still acquired large Haemonchus contortus burdens. Over 60% of H. contortus that had established before the middle of July appeared to be able to survive until October in the virtual absence of re-infection. That may have consequences for the application of evasive grazing as a control option in that suppression of adult burdens might still be necessary, through a limited use of anthelmintics or through alternative deworming strategies.
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