THERAPEUTIC TRIALS ON PSOROPTIC MANGE WITH IVERMECTIN, EKTODEX, DIMILIN AND KARANJI OIL

摘要

In our country, rabbits are reared for laboratory purpose, meat, pelt, wool and also as a pet animal. Many organisms can affect the health of rabbits among which Psoroptes cuniculi is an acarine ectoparasite infesting the ear canal of rabbits. Different acaricidal agents are used for the control of these parasites. Ivermectin at the dose rates of 0.2 mg/kg (Prosl and Kanount, 1985; Wright and Riner, 1985), 0.4 mg/kg (Wright and Riner, 1985; Pandey, 1989; Renukaprasad et al., 1989, Draz, 1993; Tripathi et al., 1993) and 0.3 mg/kg (Saudan et al., 1991 and Tripathi et al., 1993) were tried against psoroptic mange in rabbits. Maske et al (1991) and Kamboj et al. (1995) got 100 per cent results against Psoroptic mange. Il Yaschenko (1981) observed 100 percent acaricidal effect using Diflubenzuron while contradictory results were observed by Downing et al. (1990). Chhabra and Saxena (1998) gave detailed account on the acaricidal effects of Karanji oil.