Review Article

A Review of Ethnomedicinal Plants as Potential Anthelmintic Agents to Alternatively Control Gastrointestinal Nematodes of Ruminants in South Africa

Table 1

Gastrointestinal site of infection per different gastrointestinal nematodes that infect ruminants.

Oesophagus and omasumAbomasumSmall intestinesLarge intestines

Cotylophoron spp, Gongylonema pulchrum, and Paramphistomum spp.Haemonchus contortus, Teladorsagia circumcincta, Teladorsagia trifurcata, Parabonema spp., and Trichostrongylus axeiAvitellina centripunctata, Bunostomum trigonocephalum, Cooperia curticei, Cooperia surnabada, Gaigeria pachyscelis, Moniezia expansa, Nematodirus battus, Nematodirus filicollis, Nematodirus spathiger, Strongyloides papillosus, Trichostrongylus capricola, and Trichostrongylus vitrinusChabertia ovina, Oesophagostomum columbianum, Oesophagostomum venulosum, Skrjabinema ovis, Trichuris ovis, and Trichuris skrjabini
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Information contained per column is from the reference placed below each column.