Preliminary Screening for Anthelmintic Potential of Sesbania grandiflora Leaves for Parasitic Infected Goats in Short-Term Trial

Abstract

In this study, local legume plant; Sesbania grandi ora was chose as experimental plant. Eighteen goats with natural infection of gastrointestinal parasites were equally divided into three groups, where two groups were orally treated with fresh and dried leaves of S. grandi ora respectively, while the third group was untreated as a control. Treatment was conducted daily for short-term 14 days and was examined for another 14 days for post treatment observation. Normal goat’s pellet was fed to the goats and grass was fed with cut and carry system according to scheduled time-feeding; morning and afternoon, and water was given ad libitum. Fecal samples were collected every seven days during the experimental period and subjected to modi ed McMaster assay for fecal egg count. Results for this short-term preliminary anthelmintic trial had showed only limited effect on parasite eggs reduction in goats. Helminths eggs reduction after 14days in goats treated with fresh leaves was 42% and 40% for the goats treated with dried leaves with no signi cant difference between these two treatments (P > 0.05). Control goats did not showed reduction. For post-treatment period, there were no abnormalities on physiological observation of the goats from all groups. In conclusion, eventhough the reduction rate is not achieved more than 50% but there is still a potential for this plant to be use as a natural and safe dewormer for ruminant. Further studies are required and the treatment period should be extended to examine the anthelmintic ef cacy of this plant.