Abomasal parasites in wild sympatric cervids, red deer, Cervus elaphus and fallow deer, Dama dama, from three localities across Central and Western Spain: Relationship to host density and park management

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1378-1386

  Santín Durán, Mónica ^a,b   Alunda, José M ^a   Hoberg, Eric P ^a,c   De La Fuente, Concepción ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HOST RANGE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; FEMALE; FORAGING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELMINTH; LAND USE; MALE; MORPHOTYPE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIA DROZDZIL; OSTERTAGIA KOLCHIDA; OSTERTAGIA LEPTOSPICULARIS; OSTERTAGIA RYJIKOVI; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RED DEER; SPAIN; SPICULOPTERAGIA ASYMMETRICA; SPICULOPTERAGIA QUADRISPICULATA; SYMPATRY; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXIE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; METHODOLOGY; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; RUMINANT STOMACH; SEX RATIO; STOMACH DISEASE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

ABOMASUM; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DEER; FEMALE; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 14244267102     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3376     Document Type: Article

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