Cattle owners' awareness of bovine tuberculosis in high and low prevalence settings of the wildlife-livestock interface areas in Zambia

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Munyeme, Musso ^a   Muma, John B ^a   Munang'andu, Hetron M ^b   Kankya, Clovice ^c   Skjerve, Eystein ^b   Tryland, Morten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOVINAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PREVALENCE; WILD ANIMAL; ZAMBIA;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; ZAMBIA;

EID: 77955478887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-6-21     Document Type: Article

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