Effect of Duddingtonia flagrans against Ostertagia ostertagi in cattle grazing at different stocking rates

Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-111

  Fernandez A S ^a,b   Larsen, M ^a   Henningsen, E ^a   Nansen, P ^a   Grovold J ^a   Bjorn H ^c   Wolstrup, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological control; Duddingtonia flagrans; Nematophagous fungi; Ostertagia ostertagi; Ruminants; Trichostrongyles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUDDINGTONIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS SPORE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; EATING; FEMALE; MALE; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIASIS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 0032790323     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099004369     Document Type: Article

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