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Consumption of nutritional pellets with Duddingtonia flagrans fungal chlamydospores reduces infective nematode larvae of Haemonchus contortus in faeces of Saint Croix lambs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2016

L. Aguilar-Marcelino ,
P. Mendoza-de-Gives ,
G. Torres-Hernández ,
M.E. López-Arellano ,
C.M. Becerril-Pérez ,
A. Orihuela-Trujillo ,
J.F.J. Torres-Acosta  and
A. Olmedo-Juárez
L. Aguilar-Marcelino
Affiliation:
Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Parasitología Veterinaria, (CENID-PAVET, INIFAP), Boulevard Paseo Cuauhnahuac No. 8534, Col. Progreso, Jiutepec, CP 62550, Morelos, México
P. Mendoza-de-Gives*
Affiliation:
Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Parasitología Veterinaria, (CENID-PAVET, INIFAP), Boulevard Paseo Cuauhnahuac No. 8534, Col. Progreso, Jiutepec, CP 62550, Morelos, México
G. Torres-Hernández
Affiliation:
Colegio de Postgraduados, Carretera México-Texcoco, Km 36.5, Montecillo, Texcoco, CP 56230, Estado de México, México
M.E. López-Arellano
Affiliation:
Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Parasitología Veterinaria, (CENID-PAVET, INIFAP), Boulevard Paseo Cuauhnahuac No. 8534, Col. Progreso, Jiutepec, CP 62550, Morelos, México
C.M. Becerril-Pérez
Affiliation:
Colegio de Postgraduados, Carretera México-Texcoco, Km 36.5, Montecillo, Texcoco, CP 56230, Estado de México, México
A. Orihuela-Trujillo
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Av. Universidad No. 1001. Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, CP 62209, Morelos, México
J.F.J. Torres-Acosta
Affiliation:
FMVZ, CCBA Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Km 15.5 Carretera Mérida-Xmatkuil, CP 97000, Mérida, México
A. Olmedo-Juárez
Affiliation:
Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Parasitología Veterinaria, (CENID-PAVET, INIFAP), Boulevard Paseo Cuauhnahuac No. 8534, Col. Progreso, Jiutepec, CP 62550, Morelos, México
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*E-mail: pedromdgives@yahoo.com
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Abstract

Two groups of six Haemonchus contortus infected Saint Croix lambs each received different diets for 11 weeks: control group, commercial food, molasses and lucerne hay; and treated group, nutritional pellets (NPs) containing Duddingtonia flagrans at 2 × 106 chlamydospores/kg body weight (BW), sorghum and lucerne hay. Mean BW gain (BWG), body condition score (BCS) and packed cell volume (PCV) and also eggs/g of faeces (EPG) and recovered L3 were compared using a repeated measures across time model. Groups had similar BWG (control 139.7 ± 0.035 g/day and treated 167.7 ± 0.041 g/day), BCS (control 3.6 ± 0.39 and treated 3.4 ± 0.46) and PCV (control 32.5 ± 1.68% and treated 30.0 ± 1.68%). The mean EPG of the control group was 1215 ± 1040 and in the treated group it was 2097.91 ± 2050. No reduction in larval population was observed during weeks 2 and 3. The greatest larval population reduction in the faeces of treated lambs was observed during the first week (70.5%) and from weeks 6 to 11, with a mean value close to 70% (P < 0.05). In general, both experimental groups showed a similar feed conversion. It was concluded that both diets resulted in similar lamb growth, PCV, BCS and H. contortus EPG. However, NP consumption significantly reduced the H. contortus L3 population in lamb faeces.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 91 , Issue 6 , November 2017 , pp. 665 - 671
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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