Prevalence and intensity of infection of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis in dairy cattle in Galicia (NW Spain)

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 244-246

  Castro Hermida, J A ^a   Carro Corral, C ^a   Gonzalez Warleta M ^a   Mezo, M ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacions Agrarias de Mabegondo   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SPAIN;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; OOCYSTS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 33745320352     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: 14390450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2006.00946.x     Document Type: Article

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