Point prevalence of gastrointestinal helminthiasis in ruminants in southern Punjab, Pakistan

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-328

  Raza, Muhammad Asif ^a   Iqbal, Zafar ^a   Jabbar, Abdul ^a   Yaseen, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; MALE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SHEEP; TOXOCARA VITULORUM;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FECES; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BUBALUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; TOXOCARA VITULORUM; VERMES;

EID: 34548677780     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X07818554     Document Type: Article

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