Observations on the prevalence of trypanosomosis in small ruminants, equines and cattle, in relation to tsetse challenge, in The Gambia

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 1-11

  Snow, W F ^a   Wacher, T J ^a,b   Rawlings, P ^a,c  

^a International Trypanotolerance Centre Gambia   (Gambia)

^b National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

donkey; epidemiology Protozoa; Gambia; Glossina spp.; goat; horse; sheep; trypanosomosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONKEY; GAMBIA; GLOSSINA; GOAT; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EQUIDAE; GAMBIA; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INSECT VECTORS; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE; TSETSE FLIES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; DAMA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; OVIS ARIES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0030292690     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(96)01003-5     Document Type: Article

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