Percentage of reactor animals to single comparative cervical intradermal tuberculin (SCCIT) in small ruminants in Punjab Pakistan

Acta Tropica

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-91

  Javed, M Tariq ^a   Munir, Amir ^a   Shahid, Muhammad ^a   Severi, Giulio ^b   Irfan, Muhammad ^a   Aranaz, Alicia ^c   Cagiola, Monica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELL UMBRIA E DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Goats; Pakistan; Sheep; Tuberculin test; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GOAT; SHEEP; TESTING METHOD; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BOVIDS; BREED; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOAT; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; SHEEP; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MASS SCREENING; PAKISTAN; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN]; SOUTH ASIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BOVINAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 71549172480     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.08.026     Document Type: Article

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