Haemonchus contortus
Work at Moredun shows that it is possible to successfully immunize sheep against Barber’s pole worm, (Haemonchus contortus), a blood-sucking roundworm which is probably the world’s most important parasite of sheep and goats. There are currently no commercial vaccines for any ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to run a clinical trial of moxidectin , the active ingredient in a number of veterinary antiparasitic products, as a treatment for river blindness (onchocerciasis) in humans.
The disease, caused by a parasitic worm, is estimated to affect over 100 million ...
Effipro, Virbac's fipronil-based spray and spot-on external antiparasitic range for use against fleas and ticks on cats and dogs, had been several years in development. But, when the patent protecting the fipronil molecule – the active ingredient in Merial 's market-leading Frontline – expired in ...
