Epidemiology of Eimeria and associated risk factors in cattle of district Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan

Parasitology Research

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1171-1177

  Rehman, Tauseef Ur ^a   Khan, Muhammad Nisar ^a   Sajid, Muhammad Sohail ^a   Abbas, Rao Zahid ^a   Arshad, Muhammad ^a   Iqbal, Zafar ^a   Iqbal, Asif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ALABAMENSIS; EIMERIA BOVIS; EIMERIA CANADENSIS; EIMERIA CYLINDRICA; EIMERIA ELLIPSOIDALIS; EIMERIA ZUERNII; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HERD; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EIMERIA; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ALABAMENSIS; EIMERIA BOVIS; EIMERIA CYLINDRICA; EIMERIA ELLIPSOIDALIS; EIMERIA ZUERNII;

EID: 79956207477     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-2159-5     Document Type: Article

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