Seasonal changes in the level of infective strongylate nematode larvae on pasture in the coastal savanna regions of Ghana

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 70, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 175-182

  Agyei, A D ^a  

^a Animal Research Institute Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Cooperia spp; Haemonchus spp.; Infective larvae; Oesophagostumum spp.; Seasonal dynamics; Trichosrongylus spp.

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GHANA; GRASS; HAEMONCHUS; LAMB; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; WORM INFECTION;

ANIMALS; GHANA; HUMIDITY; LARVA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; POACEAE; RAIN; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STRONGYLOIDEA; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TEMPERATURE; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA;

ANIMALIA; COOPERIA; HAEMONCHUS; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; OVIS ARIES; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 0030849333     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(96)01101-6     Document Type: Article

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