Production of dairy replacement stock in relation to level of exposure to gastrointestinal nematode infection in the first grazing season: Second-year calves and heifers

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 99-115

  Ploeger, H W ^a   Kloosterman, A ^a   Rietveld, F W ^a   Hilderson, H ^b   Berghen, P ^b   Pieke, E J ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c MSD Agvet   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cattle Nematoda; Cooperia spp.; growth; milk production; Ostertagia spp.; seasonal dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GASTRIN;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; LACTATION; MILK; MILK PRODUCTION; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; SEASON; WEIGHT GAIN;

BOS TAURUS; COOPERIA; NEMATODA; OSTERTAGIA;

EID: 0030588133     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4017(96)00941-7     Document Type: Article

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