The influence of water on the migration of infective trichostrongyloid larvae onto grass

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 780-788

  Van Dijk, J ^a,b   Morgan, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; disease; drought; epidemiology; Haemonchus contortus; Nematodirus battus; rainfall; Teladorsagia circumcincta; trade off; transmission

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; LARVA; NEMATODE; NEMATODIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE MIGRATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FECES; HUMIDITY; LARVA; POACEAE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SOIL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS; WATER;

HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; NEMATODIRUS BATTUS; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA;

EID: 79956053767     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011000308     Document Type: Article

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