Lamb coccidiosis dynamics in different dairy production systems

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 181, Issue 2-4, 2011, Pages 131-138

  Saratsis, Anastasios ^a,b   Joachim, Anja ^b   Alexandros, Stefanakis ^a   Sotiraki, Smaragda ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coccidiosis; Dairy; Dynamics; Eimeria; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CLIMATE; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EIMERIA; EIMERIA CRANDALLIS; EIMERIA OVINOIDALIS; EXCRETION; FECES; GREECE; INCIDENCE; LAMB; MANAGEMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SHEEP FARMING; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPRING;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; DAIRYING; DIARRHEA; EIMERIA; FECES; FEMALE; GREECE; INCIDENCE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; EIMERIA; EIMERIA CRANDALLIS; EIMERIA OVINOIDALIS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 80052529805     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.04.027     Document Type: Article

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