Weight gain of calves during natural lungworm challenge infection is non-linearly related to previous infection history

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 247-255

  Boon, J H ^a   Ploeger, H W ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cattle Nematoda; Challenge infection; Dictyocaulus viviparus; Growth performance; Resistance

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; DICTYOCAULUS VIVIPARUS; NEMATODA; VIVIPARUS; ANIMALIA; DICTYOCAULUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DICTYOCAULUS; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PROVOCATION TEST; REINFECTION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COUGH; DICTYOCAULUS; DICTYOCAULUS INFECTIONS; FECES; LARVA; MALE; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0029888435     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4017(95)00895-0     Document Type: Article

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