Survey of brucellosis at the wildlife-livestock interface on the Zimbabwean side of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-85

  Gomo, Calvin ^a,b   de Garine Wichatitsky, Michel ^c   Caron, Alexandre ^c,d   Pfukenyi, Davies Mubika ^b  

^a Central Veterinary Laboratory Harare   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bovine brucellosis; GLTFCA; Wildlife livestock interface; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; ROSE BENGAL;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BOVIDS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON; VETERINARY ABORTION; ZIMBABWE;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MALE; ROSE BENGAL; RUMINANTS; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ZIMBABWE;

AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; BRUCELLA; GIRAFFIDAE; SYNCERUS CAFFER;

EID: 81755166899     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-011-9890-5     Document Type: Article

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