Medicinal plants for helminth parasite control: Facts and fiction

Animal

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1392-1400

  Athanasiadou, S ^a   Githiori, J ^b   Kyriazakis, I ^a,c  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bioactive plants; Ethnoveterinary medicine; Medicinal plants; Parasites; Ruminants

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTRACTION AND EXTRACTS; HELMINTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; TARGET ORGANISM;

ANIMALIA; VERMES;

EID: 34948847603     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731107000730     Document Type: Review

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