The effect of weather on the occurrence and magnitude of periparturient rise in trichostronglyid nematode egg output in Dorper ewes in a semi-arid area of Kajiado District of Kenya

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 389-395

  Ng'ang'a, C J ^a   Kanyari, P W N ^a   Maingi, N ^a   Munyua, W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Hypobiosis; Kenya; Periparturient rise; Semi arid region; Trichostrongylid nematodes; Weather

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; RAIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BREEDING; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INCIDENCE; KENYA; NEMATODIASIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZATION; SEASON; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BREEDING; FECES; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; KENYA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RAIN; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS; WEATHER;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLIDAE;

EID: 33746220160     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-006-4270-2     Document Type: Article

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