Insecticide-treated cattle for tsetse control: The power and the problems

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 123-130

  Hargrove, J W ^a,b   Omolo, S ^b   Msalilwa, J S I ^b   Fox, B ^c  

^a Division of Tsetse Control   (Zimbabwe)

^b KALIDEP ^*  (Zimbabwe)

^c Mkwaja Ranch   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Cattle; Glossina; Pyrethroids; Tanzania; Trypanosomiasis; Tsetse

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

BAIT; CATTLE; INSECTICIDE; PEST CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; ECONOMICS; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RWANDA; TANZANIA; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PYRETHRINS; RWANDA; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE; TSETSE FLIES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; GLOSSINA (PROPER); INSECTA;

EID: 0034125091     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2000.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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