The epidemiology of gastrointestinal nematodes of dairy cattle in Central Kenya

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 173-187

  Waruiru, R M ^a   Thamsborg, S M ^b   Nansen, P ^b   Kyvsgaard, N C ^b   Bogh, H O ^b   Munyua, W K ^a   Gathuma, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Burdens; Cattle; Climate; Cooperia; Epidemiology; Haemonchus; Herbage; Hypobiosis; Oesophagostomum; Parasitic gastroenteritis; Pasture; Pathology; Rainfall; Trichostrongylus

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FECES; FEMALE; HAEMONCHUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; MALE; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FECES; FEMALE; HAEMONCHUS; KENYA; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; RAIN; SEASONS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; COOPERIA; HAEMONCHUS; HAEMONCHUS PLACEI; NEMATODA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM RADIATUM; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI;

EID: 0035041798     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010322703790     Document Type: Article

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