Treatment for Cattle Parasites

Abstract

Historically, the original idea of therapeutic treatment was to alleviate the symptoms of a disease situation. As methods for testing drugs became more sophisticated and the drugs more active, the concept of treating against the causative agent of a disease or infection was established.

Using this concept in treating parasitic infections, one can easily see an economic gain in that those animals with clinical signs of parasitism can be successfully treated and possible mortality prevented. The one basic fault in this type of program was the frequent misdiagnosis of verminous pneumonia or gastrointestinal parasites as bacterial or viral pneumonia or gastroenteritis.