A health-education intervention trial to reduce porcine cysticercosis in Mbulu District, Tanzania

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 52-67

  Ngowi, H A ^a   Carabin, H ^b   Kassuku, A A ^a   Mlozi, M R S ^a   Mlangwa, J E D ^a   Willingham III, A L ^c  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CONSORT; Porcine cysticercosis incidence; Taenia solium; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TAENIA SOLIUM; TANZANIA;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BAYES THEOREM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TAENIA SOLIUM; TANZANIA;

SUIDAE; SUS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 42149149269     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.12.014     Document Type: Article

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