Comparative experimental Haemonchus contortus infection of two sheep breeds native to the Canary Islands

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 153, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 374-378

  González, Jorge F ^a   Hernández, Álvaro ^a   Molina, José M ^a   Fernández, Antonio ^a   Raadsma, Herman W ^b   Meeusen, Els N T ^c   Piedrafita, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canaria; Haemonchus contortus; Resistance; Sheep nematoda

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FECES; FEMALE; HAEMONCHIASIS; HAEMONCHUS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 42449095439     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.02.019     Document Type: Article

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