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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Main Author: Gassó, Diana (author)
Other Authors: 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)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 1000
Subjects:
Coprological analysis
McMaster egg counting
Sus scrofa
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16964
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/16964

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http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16964

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