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The Role of Companion Animals as 'Sentinels' From the One Health Perspective. [PDF]
Vet Med SciOne Health emphasizes the interconnection of human, animal and environmental health. As emotional extensions of humans, companion dogs and cats can serve as sentinels, detecting hazards that can help protect human health from the One Health perspective. When symptoms appear in pets, owners should notice the changes that may pose risks to both human and
Kang S, Chen Y, Liu M.
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Blood Parasites and Wildlife: The Development of a Discipline. [PDF]
Integr ZoolChanges in our knowledge on blood parasite infections of wild animals in the last 30 years is reviewed with emphasis on taxonomy and phylogeny, impact of infections on fitness, and distribution of blood parasites. ABSTRACT In the last 30 years, the area of the study of parasitism caused by blood parasite infections on wildlife has suffered an ...
Merino S.
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Prevalence of lice infesting goats in Mosul [PDF]
Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2007 The aim of this study is to find the prevalence and diagnosis species of lice infesting goats in different seasons and different areas and farms in Mosul, and to determine the severity of infestation among 450 native goats during a period of one year ...
T. M. Al-Saffar
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Tikrit Journal of Pure Science, 2023 This study was carried out in Sulaimani province Kurdistan region-Iraq during the spring and summer seasons from April to September 2015 on 400 head of black goat Capra aegagrus were infected with ticks and lice, have been selected from different ...
Rafal M. Hasan +2 more
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2019 Phthiraptera are lice highly adapted to living as permanent and obligatory ectoparasites of birds and mammals. High infestations by biting lice contribute to the low productivity, loss quality of the eggs, besides weight decrease of chickens.
Tiago Mendonça de Oliveira +7 more
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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2001 The purpose of this field study was to develop and evaluate eradication as a strategy to control lice in cattle. Thirty-three herds of cattle were selected and observed during a period of two and a half years.
Grønstøl H, Nafstad O
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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2004 Lice have been described on goats in commercial farming systems in South Africa but not from flocks on communal grazing. During a longitudinal survey on the causes of goat kid mortality, conducted in Jericho district, North West Province, lice were ...
P.J. Sebei +3 more
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Projected economic losses due to vector and vector-borne parasitic diseases in livestock of India and its significance in implementing the concept of integrated practices for vector management [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2018 Broadly, species of arthropods infesting livestock are grouped into flies (biting and non-biting), fleas, lice (biting and sucking), ticks (soft and hard), and mites (burrowing, non-burrowing, and follicular). Among which, biting and non-biting flies and
B. W. Narladkar
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Control of biting lice, Mallophaga − a review
Acta Tropica, 2018 The chewing lice (Mallophaga) are common parasites of different animals. Most of them infest terrestrial and marine birds, including pigeons, doves, swans, cormorants and penguins. Mallophaga have not been found on marine mammals but only on terrestrial ones, including livestock and pets.
BENELLI, GIOVANNI +3 more
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Incidence and morphological study of lice infested chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Nineveh governorate, Iraq [PDF]
Iraqi Journal of Veterinary SciencesLice were the most common Ectoparasites in birds, especially chickens that stay in their life cycle from eggs to the adult same bird, causing poor chicken health. The current study was conducted to detect lice infestation in 130 backyard chickens in some
Nadia H. mohammed +2 more
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