Gastrointestinal helminthiasis: Prevalence and associated determinants in domestic ruminants of district Toba Tek Singh, Punjab, Pakistan

Parasitology Research

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 787-794

  Khan, Muhammad Nisar ^a   Sajid, Muhammad Sohail ^a   Khan, Muhammad Kasib ^a   Iqbal, Zafar ^a   Hussain, Altaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b Livestock and Dairy Development Department   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; BUFFALO; CATTLE DISEASE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERIA; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GOAT DISEASE; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MONIEZIA; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA; PAKISTAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHEEP DISEASE; STRONGYLE INFECTION; STRONGYLOIDEA; STRONGYLOIDES; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA VITULORUM; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHURIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; FECES; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RUMINANTS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BUBALUS; CAMELIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; COOPERIA; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MONIEZIA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; OSTERTAGIA; OVIS ARIES; STRONGYLOIDES; TOXOCARA VITULORUM; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHURIS; VERMES;

EID: 77957300824     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1931-x     Document Type: Article

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