Variation among faecal egg counts following natural nematode infection in Scottish Blackface lambs

Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 275-280

  Stear, M J ^a   Abuagob, O ^a   Benothman, M ^a   Bishop, S C ^b   Innocent, G ^a   Kerr, A ^a   Mitchell, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Egg counts; Negative binomial; Nematode; Sheep; Variance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COOPERIA; DATA ANALYSIS; FECES ANALYSIS; LAMB; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; FECES; IVERMECTIN; LEVAMISOLE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SCOTLAND; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALIA; COOPERIA; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS VITRINUS;

EID: 32444434162     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005009029     Document Type: Article

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