Estimating the Effects of Tsetse Control on Livestock Productivity - A Case Study in Southwest Ethiopia

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 279-294

  Rowlands, G J ^a   Mulatu, Woudyalew ^b   Leak, S G A ^a   Nagda, S M ^a   D'Ieteren, G D M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Cattle; Cypermethrin; Growth; Insecticide; Reproduction; Trypanosomosis; Tsetse control

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; GLOSSINA (PROPER); TRYPANOSOMA;

ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; CIPERMETHRIN; DIMINAZENE; INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMATOCRIT; INFESTATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TSETSE FLY;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; DIMINAZENE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; INSECTICIDES; MALE; PREVALENCE; PYRETHRINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 0033209710     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005251722797     Document Type: Article

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