Economic efficacy of anthelmintic treatments in dairy sheep naturally infected by gastrointestinal strongyles

Parassitologia

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 201-207

  Cringoli, G ^a   Veneziano, V ^a   Pennacchio, S ^a   Mezzino, L ^a   Santaniello, M ^a   Schioppi, M ^a   Fedele, V ^b   Rinaldi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anthelmintic treatment; Economic efficacy; Gastrointestinal strongyles; Milk production; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; MILBEMYCIN; NETOBIMIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DAIRYING; DRUG SCREENING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; INTESTINE INFECTION; ITALY; LACTATION; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PUERPERAL DISORDER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; COMORBIDITY; DAIRYING; DRUG EVALUATION; FEMALE; GUANIDINES; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ITALY; LACTATION; MACROLIDES; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 54449100329     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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