Resistance of Galla and Small East African goats in the sub-humid tropics to gastrointestinal nematode infections and the peri-parturient rise in faecal egg counts

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-64

  Baker, R L ^a   Mwamachi, D M ^b   Audho, J O ^a   Aduda, E O ^a   Thorpe, W ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Genetic resistance; Goats; Haemonchus contortus; Kenya; Nematoda; Peri parturient rise

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GOAT; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; KENYA; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; FECES; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; KENYA; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LACTATION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CAPRA HIRCUS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0031684642     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(98)00151-4     Document Type: Article

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