Gastrointestinal nematodes in indigenous Zebu cattle under pastoral and nomadic management systems in the lower plain of the Southern Highlands of Tanzania

Veterinary Research Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 371-380

  Keyyu, J D ^a   Kassuku, A A ^a   Kyvsgaard, N C ^b   Willingham III, A L ^b  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age; Cattle; Conformation; Gastrointestinal tract; Indigenous Zebu; Management; Nomadism; Pastrolism; Prevalence; Season; Sex; Strongyles; Trichostrongyles

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; RAIN;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HAEMONCHUS; HELMINTHIASIS; IMMATURITY; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; PREVALENCE; RUMINANT STOMACH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH CONTENT; STRONGYLOIDEA; SUMMER; TANZANIA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS; TRICHURIS; WORM INFECTION;

ABOMASUM; AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, LARGE; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; RAIN; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; BUNOSTOMUM; COOPERIA; COOPERIA PUNCTATA; HAEMONCHUS; HAEMONCHUS PLACEI; HAEMONCHUS SIMILIS; NEMATODA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM RADIATUM; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 0037730365     PISSN: 01657380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024706120270     Document Type: Article

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