Anaemia and mortality in calves infested with the long-nosed sucking louse (Linognathus vituli)

Veterinary Record

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 176-179

  Otter, A ^a   Twomey, D F ^a   Crawshaw, T R ^a   Bates, P ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DORAMECTIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IVERMECTIN; PANOMEC; PERMETHRIN; RYPOSECT;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; LOUSE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PEDICULOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANOPLURA; BOS TAURUS; LINOGNATHUS; LINOGNATHUS VITULI; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 0041472747     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.153.6.176     Document Type: Article

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