False-positive Trichuris suis egg counts in pigs in relation to coprophagia

Parasite

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-93

  Boes, J ^a   Johansen, M V ^a,b   Eriksen, L ^a   Bogh H O ^a   Nansen, P ^a   Stephenson, L S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Coprophagia; False positive egg counts; Pigs; Trichuris suis

Indexed keywords

TRICHURIS SUIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COPROPHAGY; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN INTAKE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; COPROPHAGIA; DIETARY PROTEINS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FECES; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 0032015423     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/1998051091     Document Type: Article

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