Monthly fluctuations of worm burdens and hypobiosis of gastrointestinal nematodes of calves in extensive management systems in the Pyrenees (Spain)

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 67, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 225-236

  Almeria S ^a,b   Llorente, M M ^a   Uriarte, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO LOZANO BLESA   (Spain)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

cattle nematoda; extensive management; hypobiosis; Ostertagia ostertagi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLIMATE; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; LARVA; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; OSTERTAGIA; POACEAE; SEASONS; SPAIN; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 0030608519     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(96)01037-0     Document Type: Article

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