Abstract

Abstract An experimental infection of freshly cultured Haemonchus contortus larvae was given to housed, non-pregnant sheep in October. Phenothiazine was administered to all animals shortly after patency, but the egg output remained negative until mid-April indicating that removal of adult worms from the abomasum did not stimulate the resumption of development of arrested larvae. Worm burdens at post mortem suggest that adults were not being expelled to any great degree during the winter from the host, but this information is clouded by the difference in numbers of both adult worms and arrested larvae in sheep of different haemoglobin type. The results suggest that haemoglobin type may also be a factor in arrest of larvae as it is in the resistance of sheep to adult H. contortus .

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