Abstract
The present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of mebendazole in the treatment of Hymenolepis nana infection in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). Ten (L. catta) from the Chengdu Zoological Garden in China, which were naturally infected with H. nana, were treated with mebendazole (10 mg/kg for 5 days). A posttreatment fecal examination was conducted 10 and 20 days after the start of treatment. All treatments resulted in a decrease in the number of eggs per gram in the posttreatment sample compared with the pretreatment sample. Reduction of mean egg count was 97.6% and 100% on days 10 and 20, respectively. The results indicated that mebendazole has marked efficacy against H. nana infections in L. catta.
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This project was supported by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT0848) and Research Fund for the Chengdu Research of Giant Panda Breeding (project no. CPF-08005). The authors thank Ying-wang Wang, Bing Peng, Yan Fu, Yu-xiang Fei, and Xing-ming Yu for their kind help and thorough review of the manuscript.
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Li, B., Zhao, B., Yang, Gy. et al. Mebendazole in the treatment of Hymenolepis nana infections in the captive ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), China. Parasitol Res 111, 935–937 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-012-2838-5
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