Gastrointestinal nematode species burdens and host mortality in a feral sheep population

Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 485-496

  Craig, B H ^a   Pilkington, J G ^a   Pemberton, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Soay sheep; St. Kilda; Teladorsagia circumcincta; Trichostrongylus axei; Trichostrongylus vitrinus

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BUNOSTOMUM TRIGONOCEPHALUM; CAPILLARIA LONGIPES; CHABERTIA OVINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRONGYLOIDES PAPILLOSUS; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHURIS OVIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WORM INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FEMALE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SCOTLAND; SEX FACTORS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS VITRINUS;

EID: 33750220439     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006000618     Document Type: Article

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