Effects of worm control practices examined by a combined faecal egg count and questionnaire survey on horse farms in Germany, Italy and the UK

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 2, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Von Samson Himmelstjerna, Georg ^a   Traversa, Donato ^b   Demeler, Janina ^a   Rohn, Karl ^a   Milillo, Piermarino ^b   Schurmann, Sandra ^a   Lia, Riccardo ^c   Perrucci, Stefania ^d   Di Regalbono, Antonio Frangipane ^e   Beraldo, Paola ^f   Barnes, Helen ^g   Cobb, Rami ^g   Boeckh, Albert ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^g ZOETIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FECES ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HORSE; INFECTION CONTROL; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORM INFECTION;

EQUIDAE; STRONGYLIDA; VERMES;

EID: 70349823669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-2-S2-S3     Document Type: Article

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