Seroprevalence of brucellosis and its contribution to abortion in cattle, camel, and goat kept under pastoral management in Borana, Ethiopia

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 651-656

  Megersa, Bekele ^a,b   Biffa, Demelash ^a,b   Abunna, Fufa ^a   Regassa, Alemayehu ^a   Godfroid, Jacques ^b   Skjerve, Eystein ^b  

^a HAWASSA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Abortion; Brucellosis; Camel; Cattle; Ethiopia; Goat; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; ROSE BENGAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CAMEL; CATTLE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GOAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CAMELS; CATTLE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TESTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GOATS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREGNANCY; ROSE BENGAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BRUCELLA; CAMELIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 79651470853     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-010-9748-2     Document Type: Article

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