Use of remote sensing and geographical information systems to identify environmental features that influence the distribution of paramphistomosis in sheep from the southern Italian Apennines

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-26

  Cringoli, G ^a   Taddei, R ^a   Rinaldi, L ^a   Veneziano, V ^a   Musella, V ^a   Cascone, C ^a   Sibilio, G ^a   Malone, J B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calicophoron daubneyi; Epidemiology; Geographical information systems; Paramphistomidae; Remote sensing; Sheep trematoda

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CALICOPHORON DAUBNEYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEATHLAND; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ITALY; LAND BIOME; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARAMPHISTOMOSIS; PARASITOSIS; PASTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; SHEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAM (RIVER); TREMATODE; VEGETATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FECES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ITALY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARAMPHISTOMATIDAE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; CALICOPHORON; GASTROPODA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PARAMPHISTOMIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 2442657585     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.03.011     Document Type: Article

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