Serum antibodies to Dicrocoelium dendriticum in sheep from Sardinia (Italy)

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-5

  Sanchez Andrade R ^a   Paz Silva, A ^a   Suarez J L ^a   Arias, M ^a   Lopez C ^a   Morrondo, P ^a   Scala, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dicrocoelium sp.; Indirect ELISA; Italy; Seroprevalence; Sheep

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DICROCOELIASIS; DICROCOELIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DICROCOELIASIS; DICROCOELIUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

DICROCOELIUM; DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM; OVIS ARIES; TREMATODA;

EID: 0346668245     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(02)00215-5     Document Type: Article

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