The ability of the nematode-trapping fungus Duddingtonia flagrans to reduce the transmission of infective Ostertagia ostertagi larvae from faeces to herbage

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-122

  Fernandez A S ^a,b   Larsen, M ^a   Nansen, P ^a   Henningsen, E ^a   Gronvold J ^a   Wolstrup, J ^a   Henriksen, S A ^a,c   Bjorn H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; COW; DUDDINGTONIA; EGG; FECES CULTURE; FUNGUS SPORE; GRASS; INFECTION CONTROL; LARVA; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI;

EID: 0344731427     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022149x99000177     Document Type: Article

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