The unique resistance and resilience of the Nigerian West African Dwarf goat to gastrointestinal nematode infections

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chiejina, Samuel N ^a,c   Behnke, Jerzy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c MICHAEL OKPARA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; DISEASE COURSE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BREEDING; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE INFECTION; NIGERIA; PARASITOLOGY;

CAPRA HIRCUS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; NIGERIA;

EID: 79551542042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-12     Document Type: Review

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