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Starlings as Distribution of “Gapes”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

E. Aneurin Lewis
E. Aneurin Lewis
Affiliation:
Lecturer, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Field Officer, Institute of Agricultural Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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“GAPES,” a disease of Poultry caused by the presence of Syngamus trachealis in the windpipe, is a common disease in the Aberystwyth area, and is generally known among the Welsh farmers and poultrykeepers as “Clefyd-y-big” (the disease of the beak).

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Research Papers
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , May 1925 , pp. 81 - 82
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1925

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