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 Eugene
T. Lyons, PhD
Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center
Department of Veterinary Science
University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 40546-0099
Research in the Classical Parasitology section of the Department
of Veterinary Science continues the direction started over
50 years ago. That is, to do research on the control and transmission
on internal parasites of domestic animals - especially horses.
Virtually all drugs on the market for removing nematodes,
tapeworms, and insects (bots) were tested here as independent
evaluators of the efficacy of these compounds on internal
parasites of horses. Our research, as pioneers of discovery
of drug resistant parasites in horses (and sheep), has been
orientated towards multi-year study of the equine small strongyles
which are resistant to most of the commercially available
parasiticides.
Transmission of equine parasites also is an important aspect
of our research. The purposes of these studies are to follow
the changes of prevalence due to use of parasiticides, to
determine the treatment regimen necessary to control parasites,
and to determine whether the compounds are as efficacious
as they were when they first came on the market.
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