Sentences with phrase «drug avermectin»
On Monday, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to William Campbell of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and AAAS member Satoshi Ōmura of Kitasato University in Tokyo, who will share half the prize for discovering the drug avermectin, which has been used to treat river blindness and lymphatic filariasis as well as other parasitic diseases.
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Doramectin — Doramectin, another avermectin, has been used in a study involving 23 dogs that received weekly subcutaneous injections of 600 µg / kg.10, 31 None of the animals showed adverse effects with doramectin; however, this drug should not be used in ivermectin - sensitive breeds of dogs.
Heartworm preventatives belong to a family of drugs called the avermectins.
Those dogs are not only more prone to be sensitive to ivermectin; they tend to be sensitive to the entire family of avermectins which includes many of the drugs veterinarians use to treat parasites.