Risk indicators associated with subclinical mastitis in smallholder dairy cows in Tanzania

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 581-592

  Kivaria, F M ^a   Noordhuizen, J P T M ^b   Kapaga, A M ^a  

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

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

clinical mastitis; risk indicators; smallholder dairy cattle; subclinical mastitis; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANZANIA;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TANZANIA;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 4544320584     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TROP.0000040935.87175.bb     Document Type: Article

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