The epidemiology of gastrointestinal nematode infections in communal cattle and commercial beef cattle on the highveld of Zimbabwe

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 105-120

  Moyo, D Z ^a   Bwangamoi, O ^a   Hendrikx, W M L ^b   Eysker, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cattle; Cooperia; epidemiology; Haemonchus; nematodes; Ostertagia; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMONCHUS; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ZIMBABWE;

ABOMASUM; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLIMATE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HAEMONCHUS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LARVA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEAT; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POACEAE; SEASONS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0030566665     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(96)01030-8     Document Type: Article

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