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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2301-1548</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Agrociencia (Uruguay)]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Agrociencia Uruguay]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2301-1548</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Facultad de Agronomía - Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2301-15482019000100076</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31285/agro.23.1.3</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Consideraciones acerca de la precisión necesaria en el conteo de huevos de parásitos internos en heces de ovinos]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Considerations About the Necessary Precision in Internal Parasite Egg Count in Ovine Faeces]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Sánchez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ana L]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bell]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Washington]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ponzoni]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Raúl W]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de la República Facultad de Agronomía Departamento de Producción Animal y Pasturas]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Montevideo ]]></addr-line>
<country>Uruguay</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>23</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>76</fpage>
<lpage>79</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.edu.uy/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2301-15482019000100076&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.edu.uy/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2301-15482019000100076&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.edu.uy/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2301-15482019000100076&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Las parasitosis gastrointestinales (PGI) causadas por nematodos constituyen una limitante sanitaria y económica de la producción ovina en sistemas pastoriles. Su control ha dependido del tratamiento con productos antihelmínticos, y esto ha resultado en el desarrollo de resistencia de los parásitos a los productos utilizados. Las consecuencias de las PGI sobre la producción ovina varían de acuerdo a la severidad del efecto del parásito considerado, la carga parasitaria, la categoría ovina considerada, y el estado nutricional y fisiológico, y llegan a decenas de millones de dólares. El método más difundido para la identificación de ovinos resistentes es el conteo de huevos de parásitos por gramo de materia fecal (HPG). La precisión utilizada más comúnmente para la medición de esta variable es de 100 HPG, pero no hay estudios que indiquen si debería ser mayor o si podría ser menor. Utilizando propiedades de la distribución uniforme, estimamos con qué precisión debería registrarse para distintos valores de desvío estándar de HPG y de la magnitud del error de medición en relación a este parámetro. Concluimos que la precisión con que usualmente registran esta característica los laboratorios (100 HPG) es más que suficiente. En programas de mejora genética, en caso de existir capacidad ociosa de medición, sería más beneficioso aumentar el número de animales medidos que la precisión con que se mide HPG.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Summary: Gastro-intestinal parasite infections (GPI) caused by nematodes constitute a health and economic limitation to sheep production in pastoral systems. Their control has relied on treatment with anthelmintic drugs, which has resulted in parasite resistance to such products. The consequences of GPI on sheep production are variable, depending on the severity of the effect of the parasite in question, the worm load, the sheep class, and the nutritional and physiological status of the sheep. Losses can reach tens of millions of dollars. The most widely used method to identify resistant sheep is by faecal egg count (FEC). The most commonly used precision when recording FEC is 100 eggs per gram of faecal matter, but there are no studies indicating whether the precision should be greater or if it could be smaller. Using properties of the uniform distribution, we estimated the precision with which FEC should be estimated for different values of the standard deviation of FEC and of the measurement error in relation to this latter parameter. We concluded that the precision with which laboratories measure FEC (100 eggs per gram) is more than enough. In genetic improvement programs, if there were surplus measurement capacity, increasing the number of animals recorded would be more beneficial than increasing measurement precision.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[precisión]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[conteo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[huevos por gramo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ovinos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[precision]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[count]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[eggs per gram]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sheep]]></kwd>
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