Endoparasites in calves of beef cattle herds: Management systems dependent and genetic influences

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 173-191

  Jäger, Michael ^a   Gauly, Matthias ^a,b   Bauer, Christian ^a   Failing, Klaus ^a   Erhardt, Georg ^a   Zahner, Horst ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beef cattle herd calves; Cryptosporidium spp.; Eimeria spp.; Genetic influences; Giardia duodenalis; Influence of housing systems; Strongyles; Strongyloides papillosus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MATERNAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BIRTH; BREED; BREED DIFFERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ELLIPSOIDALIS; EIMERIA ZUERNII; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GRAZING; HERD; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PASTURE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES PAPILLOSUS; WINTER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL;

BOS TAURUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EIMERIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA; STRONGYLES; STRONGYLOIDES PAPILLOSUS;

EID: 22244454365     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2005.05.014     Document Type: Article

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