Time-space clustering of reported blowfly strike in Queensland sheep flocks

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 195-202

  Ward, Michael P ^a   Armstrong, Robert T F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Blowfly; Knox test; Lucilia cuprina; Sheep parasitological diseases; Time space clustering

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLY; INFESTATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIPTERA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; PREVALENCE; QUEENSLAND; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 0034142137     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(99)00095-1     Document Type: Article

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