Eimeria and Cryptosporidium in Estonian dairy farms in regard to age, species, and diarrhoea

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 166, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 212-219

  Lassen, Brian ^a   Viltrop, Arvo ^a   Raaperi, Kerli ^a   Järvis, Toivo ^a  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Cattle; Coccidia; Cryptosporidium; Eimeria; Estonia

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DAIRYING; EIMERIA; EIMERIA BOVIS; EIMERIA ELLIPSOIDALIS; EIMERIA ZUERNII; ESTONIA; FECES ANALYSIS; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DAIRYING; DIARRHEA; EIMERIA; ESTONIA; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; COCCIDIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EIMERIA; EIMERIA BOVIS; EIMERIA ELLIPSOIDALIS; EIMERIA ZUERNII;

EID: 70449519144     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.08.022     Document Type: Article

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