Dairy goats - Indicators of some zoonotic pathogens in the environment

Medycyna Weterynaryjna

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 644-648

  Stimbirys, Arturas ^a   Bagdonas, Jonas ^a   Jokimas, Juozas ^a   Nekrošiene, Natalija ^a  

^a Lithuanian Veterinary Academy   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Goats' milk; Toxoplasma gondii; Virus of Tick Borne Encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ACARI; BOVIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; IXODES RICINUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33745488984     PISSN: 00258628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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