Efficiency of Duddingtonia flagrans against Trichostrongyle infections of sheep on mountain pastures

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 84-90

  Gomez Rincon C ^a   Uriarte, J ^a   Valderrabano J ^a  

^a Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón IA2   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological control; Duddingtonia flagrans; Mountain systems; Nematodes; Nematophagous fungi; Sheep

Indexed keywords

PEPSINOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUDDINGTONIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FUNGUS SPORE; GRAZING; LARVA; NONHUMAN; OVERWINTERING; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PASTURE; SHEEP DISEASE; SHEEP FARMING; SPAIN; SPRING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; WORM INFECTION;

ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SPAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

DUDDINGTONIA; DUDDINGTONIA FLAGRANS; FUNGI; NEMATODA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; TRICHOSTRONGYLE;

EID: 33748606357     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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