Effects of single or concurrent infections with Eimeria alabamensis and gastrointestinal nematodes on the performance of calves on pasture

Parasitology Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-89

  Larsson, A ^a   Dimander, S O ^a   Uggla, A ^a   Waller, P ^a   Hoglund J ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPSINOGEN; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ALABAMENSIS; EMBRYO; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAZING; INOCULATION; LARVA; MALE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; PASTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERINFECTION; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; CASTRATION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA; MALE; PEPSINOGENS; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS; WEIGHT LOSS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ALABAMENSIS; NEMATODA; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; TRICHOSTRONGYLIDAE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 33645788844     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0109-4     Document Type: Article

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