Economic impact of gastrointestinal nematodes in Morada Nova sheep in Brazil.

Autor: Chagas ACS; Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste - CPPSE, São Carlos, SP, Brasil., Tupy O; Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste - CPPSE, São Carlos, SP, Brasil., Santos IBD; Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil., Esteves SN; Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste - CPPSE, São Carlos, SP, Brasil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria [Rev Bras Parasitol Vet] 2022 Aug 19; Vol. 31 (3), pp. e008722. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 19 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1590/S1984-29612022044
Abstrakt: This study evaluated the economic impact of gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infection in Morada Nova lambs under different parasite chemical control conditions. For this, 246 lambs, in the rainy and dry season, were randomized into groups according to their anthelmintic treatment with levamisole: control (CT: no treatment); routine treatment (RT: treated every 42 days); and targeted selective treatment (TST: treated according to the average daily weight gain, DWG). From 63 days of age (D63) to D210, the lambs were weighed and monitored for GIN infection parameters. Spending on anthelmintics in the production system was 1.3% of the total economic result. The economic result per animal (R$ 5.00 = US$ 1.00) was higher in the RT group, amounting to US$ 6.60 in the rainy and US$ 5.69 in the dry season, due to higher DWG. Thus, RT presented economic results 14.4% and 10.9% higher than CT, and 7.2% and 1.9% higher than TST, in the rainy and dry season, respectively. However, fast development of resistance made RT unfeasible. Here, the economic impact of GIN infection on a national scale is discussed, demonstrating its importance and the impossibility of profitable and sustainable sheep production without adequate control.
Databáze: MEDLINE