Sleeping sickness in southeastern Uganda: A systems approach

EcoHealth

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 183-194

  Berrang Ford, Lea ^a   Waltner Toews, David ^a   Charron, Dominique ^b   Odiit, Martin ^c   McDermott, John ^d   Smit, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^d INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Sleeping sickness; Social conflict; Systems approach; Trypanosomiasis; Tsetse; Uganda

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; LIVESTOCK; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MODEL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TSETSE FLY; UGANDA;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 24044513652     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-005-6331-9     Document Type: Article

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