Exposure of dairy cows to nematode infections at the end of the grazing season in The Netherlands

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 93-100

  Eysker, M ^a   Van Aarle, D ^a   Kooyman, F N J ^a   Nijzink, A M ^a   Orsel, K ^a   Ploeger, H W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperia oncophora; Nematode infections; Ostertagia ELISA

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; PEPSINOGEN;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAIRY CATTLE; EGG; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GRAZING; HERBAGE; LARVA; NEMATODIASIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA; PARASITE; PASTURE; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FECES; FEMALE; NETHERLANDS; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIASIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PEPSINOGEN A; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

COOPERIA; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; ONCOPHORA; OSTERTAGIA;

EID: 0037065229     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00312-6     Document Type: Article

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