Strategic use of ivermectin during pregnancy to control Toxocara canis in greyhound puppies

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 305-312

  Payne, P A ^a   Ridley, R K ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Greyhound; Ivermectin; Toxocara canis

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS; WORM INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; IVERMECTIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

EID: 0032814813     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(99)00124-7     Document Type: Article

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