The role of European starlings in the spread of coccidia within concentrated animal feeding operations

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 180, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 340-343

  Carlson, James C ^a   Linz, George M ^a   Ballweber, Lora R ^b   Elmore, Stacey A ^b   Pettit, Susan E ^a   Franklin, Alan B ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Eimeria; European starlings; Peridomestic wildlife; Wildlife disease; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE FARMING; CATTLE FEED BUNK; CATTLE WATER TROUGH; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EIMERIA; EIMERIA AUBURNENSIS; EIMERIA BOVIS; EIMERIA CYLINDRICA; EIMERIA ZURNII; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; ISOSPORA; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VECTOR; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING; SCREENING; STARLING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA; FECES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; ISOSPORA; STARLINGS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; COCCIDIA; EIMERIA; ISOSPORA; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 79960846313     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.03.050     Document Type: Article

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