| assessment of climatic and orographic conditions on the infection by calicophoron daubneyi and dicrocoelium dendriticum in grazing beef cattle (nw spain). | from february 2003 to march 2004, 1148 faecal samples from autochthonous rubia gallega cattle breed were collected in 170 farms from lugo (nw spain), in order to find out the prevalence and intensity of egg-excretion by calicophoron daubneyi and dicrocoelium dendriticum, and the possible influence of external factors as annual mean temperature and rainfall, altitude and mean slope. twenty-six percent (95% ci 19%, 33%) and the 18% (12, 24) of the farms were infected with rumen and lancet flukes. ... | 2007 | 17888577 |