Prevalence and intensity of gastrointestinal nematodes in slaughter lambs from central Alberta

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Two trichostrongyles, Teladorsagia ostertagi and Nematodirus helvetianus, accounted for > 99% of nematodes recovered from gastrointestinal tracts of 47 lambs pastured in central Alberta during the summer of 2000. Their prevalence and mean intensity increased from < 10% and < 50 worms/host, in late June, to > 80% and approximately 1000 worms/host, by mid-July, respectively.

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