Variation in infection levels with gastrointestinal nematodes in first-year grazing calves in The Netherlands

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 103-111

  Poot, J ^a   Eysker, M ^a   Lam, T J G M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cattle; Cooperia oncophora; ELISA; herd health management; nematoda; Ostertagia ostertagi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LARVA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; NETHERLANDS; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIASIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POACEAE;

EID: 0030887389     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(96)01051-5     Document Type: Article

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