Small Ruminant Brucellosis and Community Perception in Jijiga District, Somali Regional State, Eastern Ethiopia

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 893-898

  Bekele, Mihreteab ^a   Mohammed, Hassen ^a,b   Tefera, Mulugeta ^a   Tolosa, Tadele ^a  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Jijiga Regional Veterinary Diagnostic and Research Laboratory   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Community perception; Jijiga; Sero prevalence; Small ruminant

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TESTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

BOVIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79952183400     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-011-9781-9     Document Type: Article

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