Evolution of nematode community in grazing sheep selected for resistance and susceptibility to Teladorsagia circumcincta and Trichostrongylus colubriformis: A 4-year experiment

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 277-291

  Gruner, L ^a   Cortet, J ^a   Sauve C ^a   Limouzin, C ^a   Brunel, J C ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Genetics; Haemonchus contortus; Population dynamics; Resistance; Sheep nematoda; Teladorsagia circumcincta; Trichostrongylus colubriformis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; FECES ANALYSIS; GRAZING; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PASTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DIET; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EVOLUTION; FECES; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

EID: 0037064587     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00302-3     Document Type: Article

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