Calving season is a stronger determinant of worm burdens in pasture-based beef production than the level of residual larval contamination at turnout

Veterinary Record

Volumn 172, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 472-

  Hoglund J ^a   Hessle, A ^a   Dahlstrom F ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEMATODIASIS; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; STRONGYLOIDEA; SUCKLING; SWEDEN; WEIGHT GAIN;

CATTLE; DIAGNOSTICS; ELISA; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRONGYLES;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; POACEAE; SEASONS; SWEDEN; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84877628095     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.101077     Document Type: Article

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