Cattle brucellosis in traditional livestock husbandry practice in Southern and Eastern Ethiopia, and its zoonotic implication

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Megersa, Bekele ^a,b   Biffa, Demelash ^a,b   Niguse, Fekadu ^a   Rufael, Tesfaye ^c   Asmare, Kassahun ^a   Skjerve, Eystein ^b  

^a HAWASSA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c Diagnostic and Investigation Centre   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; BRUCELLA;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ROSE BENGAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; ROSE BENGAL; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79953708542     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-53-24     Document Type: Article

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