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Internal parasite management in grazing livestock

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It is a challenging task to control internal parasites in grazing livestock even by applying multi label and multi directional approach. It is impossible to draw general recommendations to control parasitic diseases due to varied geo-climatic conditions and methods adopted for rearing the livestock in the country like India. In view of increasing incidence of anti-parasitic drug resistance in animals, there is an urgent need to design sustainable parasite control strategy which must include on the host as well as off the host control measures to harvest the maximum productivity from the animal for an indefinite period.

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  1. Department of Parasitology, Vanbandhu College of Veterinary Science & A.H., NAU, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India

    Niranjan Kumar & Anju Varghese

  2. Department of LPM, Vanbandhu College of Veterinary Science & A.H., NAU, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India

    Thakur Krishan Shankar Rao

  3. Department of Parasitology, College of Veterinary Science & A.H., Dantiwada, Palanpur, Gujarat, India

    Veer Singh Rathor

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Kumar, N., Rao, T.K.S., Varghese, A. et al. Internal parasite management in grazing livestock. J Parasit Dis 37, 151–157 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-012-0215-z

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