title: Field method for isolation of trichostrongyle larvae from vegetation of natural pastures of Arctic ruminants.
abstract: The extent to which wild ruminant populations are exposed to infective helminth larvae on their natural pastures is relatively undetermined. In the present study, a modified method for sampling of herbage and isolation of trichostrongyle infective third-stage larvae from natural pastures was used successfully in a muskox habitat in low-Arctic Greenland. The method, a revision of the Macro-Baermann method, is particularly aimed at fieldwork under primitive conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Ecology, Zoological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. akrjensen@zi.ku.dk
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Raundrup
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Clemmensen
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Forchhammer
authors.forename: C M O
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Kapel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001110:Arctic Regions; D029785:Cyperaceae / Q000469:parasitology*; D006116:Greenland; D007814:Larva; D010274:Parasitology / Q000379:methods; D006109:Poaceae / Q000469:parasitology*; D012418:Ruminants / Q000469:parasitology*; D012621:Seasons; D014251:Trichostrongyloidea / Q000302:isolation & purification*