A seasonal survey of gastrointestinal parasites in captive wild impala antelope on a game facility south of Lusaka, Zambia

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 418-425

  Nalubamba, K S ^a   Mudenda, N B ^a,b   Malamo, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; CESTODE; FECES ANALYSIS; HAEMONCHUS; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; INTESTINE PARASITE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOON; SEASON; STRONGYLOIDES; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CESTODA; FECES; FEMALE; HAEMONCHUS; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OOCYSTS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITES; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RUMINANTS; SEASONS; STRONGYLOIDES; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; ZAMBIA;

AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS MELAMPUS; CESTODA; COCCIDIA; HAEMONCHUS; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MONEZIA; PROTOZOA; STRONGYLOIDES; TREMATODA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; VERMES;

EID: 84860696935     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: 14752697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X11000617     Document Type: Article

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