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Scientific Article

The significance of inhibition in the parasitic development of abomasal nematodes in New Zealand sheep

Pages 98-102 | Received 13 Mar 1973, Published online: 23 Feb 2011
 

Abstract

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Infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus when ingested by sheep normally undergo development through a series of moults to become sexually mature, adults, a process that takes 14 to 15 days (Veglia, Citation1915). In some circumstances, however, such larvae may become arrested in their development at an early fourth larval stage 3 to 4 days following ingestion (Blitz and Gibbs, Citation1971). A similar phenomenon of arrested or inhibited development has also been recorded in Ostertagia circumcincta and Trichostrongylus axei infections in sheep; in the former again occurring at an early fourth stage, (Sommerville, Citation1953, Citation1954) and in the latter at a loosely defined “fourth larval stage” (Reid and Armour, Citation1972).

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