Epidemiological survey of cestode-larva disease in Greek sheep flocks

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 153, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 368-373

  Christodoulopoulos, G ^a   Theodoropoulos, G ^b   Petrakos, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Echinococcus granulosus; Epidemiology; Greece; Sheep; Taenia hydatigena; Taenia multiceps

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYSTICERCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; GID; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEY; HERD; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; WORM INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CESTODE INFECTIONS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DOGS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FEMALE; GREECE; LARVA; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TAENIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; OVIS ARIES; TAENIA HYDATIGENA; TAENIA MULTICEPS;

EID: 42249090195     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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