Advances in pharmacology and chemotherapy.
Discontinued
Publisher:
Academic Press.. New York Ny : Academic Press
Frequency: Annual
Country: United States
Language: English
Start Year:1969 - 1984
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0065-3144 (Print) 0065-3144 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 0237113 |
| (DNLM): | A15000000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01461241 |
| Coden: | AVPCAQ |
| Classification: | W1 AD78K |
Resistance of animal helminths to anthelmintics. This chapter discusses the resistance of animal helminths to anthelmintics. Resistance is defined as a significant increase in the ability of individuals within a strain to tolerate doses of a compound, which would prove lethal to the majority of individuals in a normal population of the same species. The introduction of phenothiazine and the benzimidazole broad-spectrum anthelmintics, has unfortunately led to the selection of drug-resistant strains of important parasitic helminths. The emergence of an increasing number of resistant helminths is associated with the widespread use and misuse of...