Bovine tuberculosis at the wildlife-livestock-human interface in Hamer Woreda, South Omo, Southern Ethiopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Tschopp, Rea ^a,b   Aseffa, Abraham ^b   Schelling, Esther ^a   Berg, Stefan ^c   Hailu, Elena ^b   Gadisa, Endalamaw ^b   Habtamu, Meseret ^b   Argaw, Kifle ^d   Zinsstag, Jakob ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GOAT; HUMAN; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TERRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; SPUTUM CULTURE; TUBERCULIN TEST; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WILD ANIMAL;

BACILLI (CLASS); BOS; BOS INDICUS; BOVINAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TERRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GOATS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957872093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012205     Document Type: Article

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