Mebendazole, a New Potent Drug Against Syngamus Trachea in Turkeys

Abstract

Four-week-old turkey poults, artificially infected with S. trachea, were fed mebendazole in commercial turkey mash at levels varying from 0.1% to 0.0031%. The drug was given for 3 days as curative, and for 14 days as prophylactic treatment.A 100% efficacy was consistently obtained when mebendazole was fed prophylactically at a level of 0.0064% and curatively at a level of 0.0125%.The activity of mebendazole was highly significant at a dose level of 0.0031% both as a curative (p = 0.0087) and as a prophylactic (p = 0.0001) treatment.The drug was apparently well tolerated, and no side-effects were observed.