A suitable model for the utilization of Duddingtonia flagrans fungus in small-flock-size sheep farms

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 727-731

  Santurio, J M ^a   Zanette, R A ^a   Da Silva, A S ^a   Fanfa, V R ^a   Farret, M H ^a   Ragagnin, L ^a   Hecktheuer, P A ^a   Monteiro, S G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological control; Duddingtonia flagrans; Plot trial; Sheep nematoda

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHLAMYDOSPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUDDINGTONIA; DUDDINGTONIA FRAGRANS; EGG PARASITOID; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; GRAZING; HERBAGE; HERD; LARVA; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PASTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHEEP FARMING; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BRAZIL; FECES; FEMALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ANIMALIA; DUDDINGTONIA FLAGRANS; FUNGI; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79952359438     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.01.013     Document Type: Article

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