Experimental Oesophagostomum dentatum infections in the pig: Worm populations at regular intervals during trickle infections with three dose levels of larvae

Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 545-552

  Christensen, C M ^a   Barnes, E H ^a   Nansen, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Oesophagostomum dentatum; Pig; Population dynamics; Trickle infections; Worm size

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LARVA; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRONGYLOIDEA; SWINE; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; FECES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINE, LARGE; LARVA; MALE; OESOPHAGOSTOMIASIS; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM DENTATUM; STRONGYLOIDEA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030773646     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182097001571     Document Type: Article

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