Using participatory epidemiological techniques to estimate the relative incidence and impact on livelihoods of livestock diseases amongst nomadic pastoralists in Turkana South District, Kenya

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 194-203

  Bett, B ^a   Jost, C ^a   Allport, R ^b   Mariner, J ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium ^*  (Kenya)

Author keywords

Diseases; Goats; Kenya; Participatory epidemiology (PE); Turkana pastoralists

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CAMEL; ECONOMICS; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KENYA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CAMELS; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KENYA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAMELIDAE; CAPRA; CAPRA HIRCUS; MYCOPLASMA; OVIS ARIES; PESTE-DES-PETITS-RUMINANTS VIRUS;

EID: 67349151120     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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