A cross-sectional coprological survey of liver flukes in cattle and sheep from an area of the southern Italian Apennines

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 137-143

  Cringoli, G ^a   Rinaldi, L ^a   Veneziano, V ^a   Capelli, G ^b   Malone, J B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle Trematoda; Epidemiology; Geographical information system; Italy; Sheep Trematoda

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICROCOELIASIS; DICROCOELIUM; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFECTION RATE; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PASTURE; SHEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DICROCOELIASIS; DICROCOELIUM; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM; DIGENEA (FLUKES); FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HEPATICA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 0037056004     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00183-8     Document Type: Article

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