Uses and limitations of faecal egg count for assessing worm burden in wild boars

The most widely used technique to assess helminth infection in both domestic and wild mammals is the faecal egg count (FEC). Most efforts to test the reliability of FEC as a proxy for parasite load are in small ruminant studies and limited work has evaluated the use of FEC in pigs. The aim of this s...

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Autor principal: Gassó, Diana (author)
Outros Autores: Feliu, Cales (author), Ferrer, David (author), Mentaberre, Gregorio (author), Casas-Díaz, Encarna (author), Velarde, Roser (author), Fernández-Aguilar, Xavier (author), Colom-Cadena, Andreu (author), Navarro-Gonzalez, Nora (author), Ramón López-Olvera, Jorge (author), Lavín, Santiago (author), Fenández-Llario, Pedro (author), Segalés, Joaquim (author), Serrano, Emmanuel (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 1000
Assuntos:
Coprological analysis
McMaster egg counting
Sus scrofa
Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16964
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/16964

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