Seasonal pattern of bovine amphistomosis in traditionally reared cattle in the Kafue and Zambezi catchment areas of Zambia

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-102

  Phiri, A M ^a   Chota, A ^a   Phiri, I K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Amphistomosis; Cattle; Seasonality; Trematodes; Zambia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; PARAMPHISTOMATIDAE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; ZAMBIA;

BOS; BOVINAE; FASCIOLA; TREMATODA;

EID: 33947694218     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-007-4406-z     Document Type: Article

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