Metazoan-protozoan parasite co-infections and host body weight in St Kilda Soay sheep

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-441

  Craig, B H ^a,b   Tempest, L J ^a   Pilkington, J G ^a   Pemberton, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body weight; Co infection; Eimeria spp.; Melophagus ovinus; Soay sheep; St Kilda; Teladorsagia spp.; Trichostrongylus spp.

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COCCIDIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EIMERIA; HOST; HOST SELECTION; LAMB; MELOPHAGUS OVINUS; METAZOON; MIXED INFECTION; NEMATODIRUS; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SHEEP; STRONGYLOIDEA; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS VITRINUS; UNITED KINGDOM; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COCCIDIOSIS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; EIMERIA; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; COCCIDIA; EIMERIA; HIPPOBOSCIDAE; MELOPHAGUS OVINUS; METAZOA; NEMATODIRUS; OVIS ARIES; PROTOZOA; STRONGYLES; TELADORSAGIA; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS AXEI; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS VITRINUS; VERMES;

EID: 43249108403     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008004137     Document Type: Article

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