A slaughter slab survey for extra-intestinal porcine helminth infections in northern Tanzania

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 335-340

  Ngowi, H A ^a   Kassuku, A A ^a   Maeda, G E M ^a   Boa, M E ^a   Willingham, A L ^b  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Extra intestinal helminths; Inspection; Meat; Pigs; Tanzania; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ASCARIS SUUM; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA; TAENIA; TAENIA HYDATIGENA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TRICHINELLA; VERMES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; HELMINTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEAT; PARASITOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TANZANIA; TONGUE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FOOD INSPECTION; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HELMINTHS; MALE; MEAT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RURAL POPULATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TANZANIA; TONGUE;

EID: 3543117175     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TROP.0000026663.07862.2a     Document Type: Review

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