Repeated cross-sectional skin testing for bovine tuberculosis in cattle kept in a traditional husbandry system in Ethiopia

Veterinary Record

Volumn 167, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 250-256

  Tschopp, R ^a,b   Schelling, E ^a   Hattendorf, J ^a   Young, D ^c   Aseffa, A ^b   Zinsstag, J ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b All Africa Leprosy Tuberculosis and Rehabilitation Training Centre Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 77958133065     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.c3381     Document Type: Article

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