Markers/parameters for the evaluation of natural resistance status of small ruminants against gastrointestinal nematodes

Animal

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 994-1004

  Saddiqi, H A ^a   Sarwar, M ^b   Iqbal, Z ^b   Nisa, M ^b   Shahzad, M A ^b  

^a GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

evaluation; gastrointestinal nematodes; parameters; resistance potential; small ruminants

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; EVALUATION; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 84860756786     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731111002357     Document Type: Article

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