Bovine dermatophilosis, A re-emerging pandemic disease in Zimbabwe

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1289-1297

  Chatikobo, P ^a   Choga, T ^b   Ncube, C ^b   Muzenda Mutambara, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Amblyomma variegatum; Bovine dermatophilosis; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; TICK; TICK INFESTATION; ZIMBABWE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; IXODIDAE; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TICK INFESTATIONS; ZIMBABWE;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; BOS; BOVINAE; HEXAPODA; IXODIDA;

EID: 70350304168     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-009-9314-y     Document Type: Article

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