Vande Velde Fiona, Charlier Johannes, Claerebout Edwin
Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.
Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
Front Vet Sci. 2018 Oct 16;5:255. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2018.00255. eCollection 2018.
Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infections are a common constraint in pasture-based herds and cause a decrease in animal health, productivity and farm profitability. Current control practices to prevent production losses of GIN infections in livestock depend largely on the use of anthelmintic drugs. However, due to the continued use of these drugs over more than three decades, the industry is now increasingly confronted with nematode populations resistant to the available anthelmintics. This emerging anthelmintic resistance (AR) in cattle nematodes emphasizes the need for a change toward more sustainable control approaches that limit, prevent or reverse the development of AR. The uptake of diagnostic methods for sustainable control could enable more informed treatment decisions and reduce excessive anthelmintic use. Different diagnostic and targeted or targeted selective anthelmintic control approaches that slow down the selection pressure for anthelmintic resistance have been developed and evaluated recently. Now it is time to transform these insights into guidelines for sustainable control and communicate them across the farmer community. This article reviews the current uptake of such sustainable practices with a focus on farmer's socio-psychological factors affecting this uptake. We investigate communication as a possible tool to change current behavior and successfully implement more sustainable anthelmintic treatment strategies.
胃肠道线虫（GIN）感染是放牧牛群中常见的制约因素，会导致动物健康、生产力和农场盈利能力下降。目前预防家畜GIN感染造成生产损失的控制措施很大程度上依赖于使用驱虫药物。然而，由于这些药物持续使用了三十多年，该行业现在越来越多地面临对线虫种群对现有驱虫药产生抗性的问题。牛线虫中这种新出现的驱虫抗性（AR）凸显了转向更可持续控制方法的必要性，这些方法可以限制、预防或扭转AR的发展。采用可持续控制的诊断方法可以做出更明智的治疗决策，并减少驱虫药的过度使用。最近已经开发并评估了不同的诊断方法以及减缓驱虫抗性选择压力的靶向或靶向选择性驱虫控制方法。现在是时候将这些见解转化为可持续控制指南，并在农民群体中进行传播了。本文回顾了此类可持续做法的当前采用情况，重点关注影响这种采用的农民社会心理因素。我们将沟通作为一种可能的工具进行研究，以改变当前行为并成功实施更可持续的驱虫治疗策略。
