Impact of biological factors on the interpretation of bovine trypanosomosis serology

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-73

  Greiner, Matthias ^a,c   Bhat, T Shivarama ^a   Patzelt, Ralf J ^a   Kakaire, David ^b   Schares, Gereon ^a   Dietz, Ekkehard ^a   Böhning, Dankmar ^a   Zessin, Karl Hans ^a   Mehlitz, Dieter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Livestock Health Research Institute Uganda   (Uganda)

^c Inst Parasitol and Trop Vet Med   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age effect; Biological factors; Cattle; Covariate analysis; Cut off value; ELISA; Fixed effects model; Logistic regression; Mixture distribution analysis; Trypanosomosis; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; TRYPANOSOMA;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRYPANOSOMA; UGANDA;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE; UGANDA;

EID: 0031111068     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(96)01088-4     Document Type: Article

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