Trichostrongylus

Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 316-325

  Tompkins, Daniel M ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fecal egg counts, in estimating relative parasite intensity; Treatment and control eliminating by standard anthelmintics; Trichostrongylus bursate nematodes; Trichostrongylus monoxenous, requiring single host to complete life cycle; Trichostrongylus, in wild populations of Galliformes and Anseriformes; Trichostrongylus, small, fine, reddish worms occurring in ceca

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859708540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813804620.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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