What is the price of neglecting parasite groups when assessing the cost of co-infection?

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1533-1540

  Serrano, E ^a,b   Millan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feral cats; multiple infections; partial least squares regression; poliparasitism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BODY CONDITION VARIABILITY; BODY CONSTITUTION; FERAL CAT; HELMINTHIASIS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CONSTITUTION AND HEALTH; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SPAIN; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COINFECTION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL;

EID: 84901388199     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813002100     Document Type: Article

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