Oocyst output and transmission rates during successive infections with Eimeria acervulina in experimental broiler flocks

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 187, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 63-71

  Velkers, Francisca C ^a,b   Bouma, Annemarie ^a   Arjan Stegeman, J ^a   de Jong, Mart C M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broiler; Eimeria acervulina; Infection dynamics; Transmission rate parameter

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BROILER; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; HERD; INOCULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; SPOROGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIMERIA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYSTS; POULTRY DISEASES;

AVES; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA;

EID: 84860662607     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.12.032     Document Type: Article

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