Anthelmintic efficacy against gastrointestinal nematodes in goats raised under mountain farming conditions in northern Italy

Table 1 Applied anthelmintics, mean, median and range of faecal egg counts (FEC) before and 10 to 14 days after treatment, arithmetic mean and 95% confidence interval of faecal egg count reduction (FECR, %) and larval identification (LI, %) before and after routine anthelmintic treatments of 8 goat flocks

Farm	n	Anthelmintic (class)	pre-FEC			post-FEC			FECR mean	95% CI	LI (pre−/post-treatment)
Farm	n	Anthelmintic (class)	Mean	Median	Range	Mean	Median	Range	FECR mean	95% CI	Tr	Te	Ha	Other
1	13	Ivermectin (ML)*	729	802	50–1422	4	0	0–602	99	97–100	39/-	0/-	61/-	0/-
2	19	Ivermectin (ML)**	814	600	150–2129	0	0	0–597	99	99–100	59/-	0/-	41/-	0/-
3	30	Eprinomectin (ML)	3462	2636	50–19714	231	351	0–2743	93	85–99	86/100	0/0	14/0	0/0
4	8	Ivermectin (ML)***	953	472	50–2874	11	0	0–200	99	94–100	7/-	0/-	93/-	0/-
5	17	Ivermectin (ML)	211	199	57–622	76	99	0–530	64	41–87	0/0	0/0	100/100	0/0
6	10	Moxidectin (ML)**	704	377	86–2167	2	0	0–417	88	66–100	83/-	0/-	17/-	0/-
7	27	Fenbendazole (BZ)***	1177	955	251–3168	2	0	0–597	99	99–100	25/0	13/0	62/100	0/0
8	19	Fenbendazole (BZ)	1347	900	200–3750	854	616	296–1463	37	19–53	80/100	0/0	20/0	0/0

n number of animals, Tr Trichostrongylus, Te Teladorsagia, Ha Haemonchus, Other include Cooperia, Bunostomum and Oesopaghostomum, *: of the ML-farms, 1 each applied Ivomec® (ivermectin, Merial Italia S.p.a., subcutaneously), Closivet® (ivermectin, Bayer S.p.a., subcutaneously), Cydectin® (moxidectine, Pfizer Italia S.p.a., subcutaneously), Eprinex® (eprinomectin, Merial Italia S.p.a., pour-on), 2 farms applied Oramec® (ivermectin, Merial Italia S.p.a., orally), in the BZ-farms, Zodalben® (albendazole, Calier Italia S.p.a., orally) was used at the sheep label dose; −: no larvae in culture; ** administered at 2 times the label sheep dose; *** organic farming

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