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The response to desiccation of eggs of Trichostrongylus colubriformis and Haemonchus contortus (Nematoda: Trichostrongylidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

P. J. Waller  and
A. D. Donald
P. J. Waller
Affiliation:
Division of Animal Health, C.S.I.R.O., McMaster Laboratory, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia
A. D. Donald
Affiliation:
Division of Animal Health, C.S.I.R.O., McMaster Laboratory, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia
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Eggs of T. colubriformis and H. contortus were separated from faeces. Their response to desiccation was compared by subjecting them, at different stages of development, to a range of relative humidities. Many eggs of T. colubriformis at all stages of development survived desiccation at relative humidities down to 75%, whereas the only H. contortus eggs to survive were those exposed to the highest relative humidity and which had already undergone a substantial amount of development before desiccation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , October 1970 , pp. 195 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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