Prevalence and seasonal incidence of nematode parasites and fluke infections of sheep and goats in eastern Ethiopia

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 521-531

  Sissay, Menkir M ^a,b   Uggla, Arvid ^a   Waller, Peter J ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Bunostomum; Calicophoron; Cooperia; Dicrocoelium; Ethiopia; Fasciola; Goat; Haemonchus; Nematode; Nematodirus; Oesophagostomum; Paramphistomum; Parasite; Sheep; Trematode; Trichostrongylus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; LIVER; LUNG; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TREMATODIASIS;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ETHIOPIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; INCIDENCE; LIVER; LUNG; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; BUNOSTOMUM; BUNOSTOMUM TRIGONOCEPHALUM; CALICOPHORON; CAPRA HIRCUS; CHABERTIA OVINA; COOPERIA; COOPERIA CURTICEI; DICROCOELIUM; DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HAEMONCHUS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MICROBOTHRIUM; NEMATODA; NEMATODIRUS; NEMATODIRUS FILICOLLIS; NEMATODIRUS SPATHIGER; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM COLUMBIANUM; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM VENULOSUM; OVIS ARIES; PARAMPHISTOMUM; STRONGYLOIDEA; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES PAPILLOSUS; TREMATODA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS VITRINUS; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS OVIS; VERMES;

EID: 34548528462     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-007-9035-z     Document Type: Article

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