Buffalo-associated Theileria parva: The risk to cattle of buffalo translocation into the Highveld of Zimbabwe

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 969, Issue , 2002, Pages 275-279

  Latif, A A ^a   Hove, T ^b   Kanhai, G K ^c   Masaka, S ^c  

^a Faculty of Science   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^c Veterinary Research Laboratory Zimbabwe   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

African buffalo; Corridor disease; Theileria parva; Theileriosis; Zimbabwe Highveld

Indexed keywords

BLOVAC; PROTOZOAL VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTHROPOD; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEVER; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOSIS; SCHIZONT; THEILERIA PARVA; TICK; VACCINATION; ZIMBABWE;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS; PROTOZOA; SYNCERUS CAFFER; THEILERIA; THEILERIA PARVA;

EID: 0036411697     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04392.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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