Giardia species and other intestinal parasites in dogs in north-east and central Italy

Veterinary Record

Volumn 159, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 422-424

  Capelli, G ^a   Frangipane di Regalbono, A ^b   Iorio, R ^c   Pietrobelli, M ^b   Paoletti, B ^c   Giangaspero, A ^d  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Agrarie   (Italy)

^c Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Italy)

^d Faculty of Agriculture   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COCCIDIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIARRHEA; DOG DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLOTATION; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE PARASITE; ITALY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRICHURIS; TROPHOZOITE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; GIARDIA;

EID: 33749328560     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.159.13.422     Document Type: Article

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