Treatment of atoxoplasmosis in the Blue-crowned Laughing Thrush (Dryonastes courtoisi).
Passerines are frequently parasitized by coccidia, especially species of the genus Isospora, with extra-intestinal stages that can be highly pathogenic causing serious clinical damage in young birds. Whilst there is still no effective treatment to completely clear isosporoid coccidia with extra-intestinal stages from a host species, our results showed that prolonged treatment with toltrazuril (BAYER AG, Leverkusen, Germany) can decrease the oocysts in faeces and thus reduce the extra-intestinal phase of the infection. The toltrazuril treatment is therefore probably indirectly effective against the systemic form of atoxoplasmosis.
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Ján
J
Jamriška
Lourdes A
LA
Lavilla
Ann
A
Thomasson
Alberto R
AR
Barbon
Javier F
JF
Lopéz
David
D
Modrý
D000818:Animals; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000469:parasitology*; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D007549:Isospora / Q000187:drug effects*; D021865:Isosporiasis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000662:veterinary*; D046109:Passeriformes; D014227:Triazines / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D014227:Triazines; C036670:toltrazuril