A survey of bovine cysticercosis/human taeniosis in Northern Turkana District, Kenya

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 197-204

  Asaava, Lucas L ^a   Kitala, Phillip M ^a   Gathura, Peter B ^a   Nanyingi, Mark O ^a,d   Muchemi, Gerald ^a   Schelling, Esther ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cattle cestoda; ELISA; Epidemiology cestoda; Kenya Turkana; Taenia saginata

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; MALE; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HUMANS; HYGIENE; KENYA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEAT; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ZOONOSES;

BOS; BOVINAE; CESTODA; TAENIA SAGINATA;

EID: 67349108742     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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