A survey of toxocara infections in cat breeding colonies in the netherlands

Veterinary Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-11

  Overgaauw, P A M ^a   Boersema, J H ^b  

^a Virbac Nederland BV   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; FECES; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NETHERLANDS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOIL; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FECES; FEMALE; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOIL; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS;

EID: 0031603173     PISSN: 01652176     EISSN: 18755941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01652176.1998.9694826     Document Type: Article

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