Investigating the epidemiology of heartwater (Cowdria ruminantium infection) by means of a transmission dynamics model

Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-61

  O'Callaghan, C J ^a   Medley, G F ^a   Peter, T F ^b   Perry, B D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cowdria ruminantium; Endemic Stability; Epidemiology; Heartwater; Transmission modelling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DYNAMICS; EHRLICHIA; HEARTWATER DISEASE; HOST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; CARRIER STATE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEARTWATER DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TICKS; WEST INDIES;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA HEBRAEUM; ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; IXODIDAE;

EID: 0031926434     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182098002790     Document Type: Article

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