Mastitis in smallholder dairy and pastoral cattle herds in the urban and peri-urban areas of the Dodoma municipality in Central Tanzania

Livestock Research for Rural Development

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Mdegela, R H ^a   Karimuribo, E ^a   Kusiluka, L J M ^a   Kabula, B ^a   Manjurano, A ^a   Kapaga, A M ^b   Kambarage, D M ^a  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b Animal Diseases Research Institute Dar Es Salaam   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Cattle; Dairy; Mastitis; Pastoral; Smallholder; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIA; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; MUCOR; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM FLAVESCENS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; UNCLASSIFIED BACTERIA;

EID: 27744436967     PISSN: 01213784     EISSN: 01213784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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