Evaluation of gastro-intestinal nematode parasite control strategies for first-season grazing cattle in Sweden

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 111, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 193-209

  Dimander, Sten Olof ^a   Höglund, Johan ^a   Uggla, Arvid ^a   Spörndly, Eva ^a   Waller, Peter J ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cattle Nematoda; Control methods Nematoda; Copper wire particles; Duddingtonia flagrans; Ecology; Epidemiology; Grazing management

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; COPPER; IVERMECTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; DUDDINGTONIA; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAZING; LARVA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITISM; SWEDEN;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COPPER; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; IVERMECTIN; MALE; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIASIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PEPSINOGEN A; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; SEASONS; SWEDEN; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; DUDDINGTONIA FLAGRANS; FUNGI; NEMATODA; ONCOPHORA; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI;

EID: 0037434459     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00380-1     Document Type: Article

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