Eimeria acervulina: The influence of inoculation dose on transmission between broiler chickens

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 286-296

  Velkers, F C ^a,b   Bouma, A ^b   Graat, E A M ^a   Klinkenberg, D ^b   Stegeman, J A ^b   Jong, M C M D ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broilers; Eimeria acervulina; Population dynamics; Protozoa; Transmission rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BROILER; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EXCRETION; EXPOSURE; HERD; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INOCULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA; FECES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OOCYSTS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POULTRY DISEASES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

AVES; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; GALLUS GALLUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77952584794     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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