Cryptosporidium species infection in pigs in East Anglia

Veterinary Record

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 51-52

  Featherstone, C A ^a   Marshall, J A ^a   Giles, M ^a   Sayers, A R ^a   Pritchard, G C ^a  

^a Woodham Lane ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; WEANING; ZOONOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; WEANING; ZOONOSES;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; SUIDAE;

EID: 76249118732     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.b4771     Document Type: Article

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