Efficiency of feeding Duddingtonia flagrans chlamydospores to grazing ewes on reducing availability of parasitic nematode larvae on pasture

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 203-213

  Fontenot, M E ^a,b   Miller, J E ^a,b   Pena M T ^a   Larsen, M ^c   Gillespie, A ^d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d CHR HANSEN A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological control; Duddingtonia flagrans; Fungus; Nematode; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DUDDINGTONIA; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GRAZING; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HEMATOCRIT; HERBAGE; LARVA; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PASTURE; SHEEP DISEASE; SUMMER;

ANIMALIA; DUDDINGTONIA FLAGRANS; FUNGI; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0346687677     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2003.10.017     Document Type: Article

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