The effects of climate change on ovine parasitic gastroenteritis determined using veterinary surveillance and meteorological data for Northern Ireland over the period 1999-2009

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 190, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 167-177

  McMahon, C ^a   Gordon, A W ^b   Edgar, H W J ^b   Hanna, R E B ^b   Brennan, G P ^a   Fairweather, I ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthelmintic resistance; Climate change; Epidemiology; Gastrointestinal nematode infection; Northern Ireland; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; IRELAND; LARVA; METEOROLOGY; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITOSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHEEP; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SUMMER; TELADORSAGIA; TEMPERATURE; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GEOGRAPHY; NEMATODIRUS; NORTHERN IRELAND; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RAIN; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TEMPERATURE; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS;

NEMATODA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 84867142230     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

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