Efficacy of Orally Administered Febantel against Monogenean Heterobothrium okamotoi infection of Cultured Tiger Puffer Takifugu rubripes

Accession number;07A0049617
Title;Efficacy of Orally Administered Febantel against Monogenean Heterobothrium okamotoi infection of Cultured Tiger Puffer Takifugu rubripes
Author; KIMURA TAKESHI (Kumamoto Prefectural Fisheries Dev. Div., Kumamoto, Jpn) SAMESHIMA MAMORU (Kumamoto Prefectural Fisheries Dev. Div., Kumamoto, Jpn) NOMURA YOSHINORI (Kumamoto Prefectural Fisheries Res. Center, Kumamoto, Jpn) MORITA JUN (Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd., Yokohama, Jpn) MIZOGUCHI HIDEKI (Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd., Tokyo, Jpn) ISHIHARA MAMORU (Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd., Yokohama, Jpn)
Journal Title;Fish Pathology
Journal Code:G0015B
ISSN:0388-788X
VOL.41;NO.4;PAGE.147-151(2006)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.1, TBL.3, REF.13
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;We examined the efficacy of febantel against the infection of the diclidophorid monogenean Heterobothrium okamotoi in cultured tiger puffer Takifugu rubripes. Febantel is a prodrug of fenbendazole, a benzimidazole drug, which is widely used in the field of veterinary medicine. Febantel was metabolized to fenbendazole in tiger puffer just like veterinary animals for oral administration. At the doses of 12.5 mg/kg and 25 mg/kg for 5 days, and 50 mg/kg for 3 days, 88%, 96% and 94%, respectively, of mature worms, and 97%, 95% and 97%, respectively, of immature worms were eradicated at 22-23.DEG.C.. These results suggest that febantel has high anti-H. okamotoi activity. (author abst.)
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