Prevalence of the proventricular NNematode Tetrameres americana cram (1927) in different age groups of chickens in the Morogoro region, Tanzania

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-137

  Fink, M ^a,c   Permin, A ^a   Magwisha, H B ^b   Jensen, K M V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Free range chickens; Gastrointestinal helminths; Prevalence; Tanzania; Tetrameres americana

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; TETRAMERES; VERMES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; FEMALE; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEMALE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA;

EID: 14944367420     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TROP.0000048512.83379.0e     Document Type: Article

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