Giardiasis in dogs and cats in the Belgrade area

Acta Veterinaria

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-47

  Nikolić, Aleksandra ^a   Dimitrijević, Sanda ^b   Djurković Djaković, Olgica ^a   Bobic B ^a   Maksimović Mihajlović, Olga ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cats; Dogs; Giardia; Urban area

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG DISEASE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FAMILY; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; URBAN AREA; YUGOSLAVIA; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS CATUS; GIARDIA;

EID: 0037000443     PISSN: 05678315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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