Asynchrony in host and parasite phenology may decrease disease risk in livestock under climate warming: Nematodirus battus in lambs as a case study

Parasitology

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1306-1317

  Gethings, Owen J ^a,b   Rose, Hannah ^a   Mitchell, Siân ^c   Van Dijk, Jan ^d   Morgan, Eric R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anthelmintic; Climate change; disease; epidemiology; food security; nematode; Nematodirus battus; non linear; sheep; spring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HATCHING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); NEMATODIRUS BATTUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP DISEASE; SPRING; TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEAT; NEMATODIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TIME; TRANSMISSION; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; NEMATODIRUS BATTUS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEMATODIRUS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84937814097     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182015000633     Document Type: Article

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