Assessment of cattle grub (Hypoderma spp.) prevalence in northeastern Italy: An immunoepidemiological survey on bulk milk samples using ELISA

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 343-350

  Frangipane di Regalbono, Antonio ^a   Capelli, Gioia ^a   Otranto, Domenico ^b   Pietrobelli, Mario ^a  

^a Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cattle Arthropoda; ELISA; Hypoderma bovis; Hypoderma lineatum; Hypodermosis; Milk

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAIRYING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GRAZING; HERD; HYPODERMA; ITALY; LACTATION; LARVA; MILK; NONHUMAN; PALPATION; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DIPTERA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; ITALY; LARVA; MILK; MYIASIS; PREVALENCE;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; HYPODERMA; HYPODERMA BOVIS; HYPODERMA LINEATUM;

EID: 0037468312     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00387-4     Document Type: Article

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