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VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY
Volume 139, Issue 1-3, Pages 67-73Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.02.024
Keywords
cattle-East Coast fever; Theileria parva schizonts; early-disease detection; pulmonary signs; theilericidal drug-buparvaquone; early-stage treatment; cost-effective-treatment
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Evaluation trials of the efficacy of buparvaquone (BUTA-kel (TM) KELA Laboratoria. N.V. Belgium). as a treatment of field cases of Theileria parva infection (East Coast fever-ECF) were carried out on 63 cattle in the peri-urban of Dar Es Salaam city, Tanzania, during the period November 2004 to August 2005. Thirty-two cattle (56%) received single-dose treatment (2.5 mg buparvaquone per kg body weight), while two and three-dose treatment with interval(s) of 48 h was given to 33% and 11% of total treated cattle, respectively; 38 cattle (60.3%) were treated at an early stage of the disease, while 25 cattle (39.7%) were treated at an advanced stage of the disease. The rectal body temperature of 90.5% of buparvaquone-treated cattle dropped to normal values (37.5-39.5 degrees C) by day 7 of treatment, and by day 15 of treatment 96.8% of treated cattle showed normal values. Pulmonary signs were observed in 8/68 (11.8%) of total ECF diagnosed cattle and were successfully treated. albeit with parvaquone plus frusemide (Fruvexon); were not included in final evaluation of the efficacy of BUTA-kel. The present evaluation trials record a recovery rate of 95.2%. Buparvaquone (BUTA-kel (TM) KELA Laboratoria, N.V. Belgium). therefore, records another efficacious and valuable alternative treatment against East Coast fever in Tanzania. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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