Disease and vector constraints affecting cattle production in pastoral communities of Ssembabule district, Uganda

Livestock Research for Rural Development

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 60-68

  Otim, C P ^a   Ocaido, M ^b   Okuna, N M ^a   Erume, J ^b   Ssekitto, C ^a   Wafula, R Z O ^b   Kakaire, D ^a   Walubengo, J ^a   Okello, A ^a   Mugisha, A ^b   Monrad, J ^c  

^a Livestock Health Research Institute Uganda   (Uganda)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Assessment of impact; Cattle production; Diagnostic survey; Helminthosis; Pastoral agro pastoral system; Tick borne diseases; Ticks; Trypanosomosis; Tsetse; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; GLOSSINA (PROPER); RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS EVERTSI; THEILERIA; THEILERIA PARVA; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 2942670250     PISSN: 01213784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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