Onur Köse, R. Kiyici, M. Pala, R. Adanir, B. K. Karaayvaz, M. Karaca, H. A. Akkan
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The aim of the present study was to evaluate and compare the efficiacy of albendazole and paromomycine treatments against natural Giardia spp. infection in calves. The calves were divided in two groups of six animals each with similar parasitic loads of Giardiaspp. cysts. Albendazole (20 mg/kg) and paromomycin (50 mg/kg) were administrated orally to group A and group P, respectively, for three consecutive days. The efficiacies of drugs evaluated by analyzing the reduction in cyst excretion in native fecal examinations on days 0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 21 and 28. In addition, percentages of reduction for days 3, 7, 10, 14, 21 and 28 according to day 0 were evaluated. The geometric mean of fecal cyst excretion in both groups started to decrease from the 3rd day, in paromomycin group the decrease continued steadily throughout the examination days starting from the 3rd day, despite that in the albendazole group the cyst amount increased in the 7th day and then decreased again. Cyst excretion reached zero in all animals at the 21st and 28th days in group P and group A, respectively. The percentage of reduction started with a high rate of 47.72% on the third day and reached 100% on the 21st day in the paromomycin group. In the albendazole group, the percentage of reduction started with a rate of 35.29% on the third day and reached 100% on the 28th day. As a result, paromomycin was found to be more effective compared to albendazole in terms of both the regularity of the mean cyst reduction and the time it takes for the cyst excretion to reach zero.
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"Medycyna Weterynaryjna" publishes various types of articles which are grouped in the following editorial categories: reviews, original studies, scientific and professional problems, the history of veterinary medicine, posthumous memoirs, as well as chronicles that briefly relate scientific advances and developments in the veterinary profession and medicine. The most important are the first two categories, which are published with short summaries in English. Moreover, from 2001 the editors of "Medycyna Weterynaryjna", bearing in mind market demands, has also started publishing entire works in English. Since 2008 the periodical has appeared in an electronic version. The following are available in this version: summaries of studies published from 1999 to 2005, full versions of all the studies published in the years 2006-2011 (in pdf files), and full versions of the English studies published in the current year (pdf). Only summaries of the remaining studies from the current year are available. In accordance with the principles accepted by the editors, the full versions of these texts will not be made available until next year.
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