Seasonal availability of gastrointestinal nematode larvae to cattle on pasture in the central highlands of Kenya

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-146

  Waruiru, R M ^a   Weda, E H ^a   Otieno, R O ^a   Ngotho, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cattle; Helminthosis; Kenya; Larvae; Nematodes; Pasture; Rainfall; Season

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERIA; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; LARVA; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PASTURE; POACEAE; SEASON; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BUNOSTOMUM; COOPERIA; HAEMONCHUS; NEMATODA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; POACEAE; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 0036618550     PISSN: 00302465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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