Economic burden of bovine trypanosomosis in three villages of Metekel zone, Northwest Ethiopia

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 873-879

  Tesfaye, Dawit ^a   Speybroeck, Niko ^b,c   de Deken, Reginald ^b   Thys, Eric ^b  

^a HAWASSA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bovine; Economic burden; Ethiopia; Metekel zone; Trypanosomosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATTLE; ECONOMICS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MORTALITY; NAGANA; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CATTLE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEASONS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE; TSETSE FLIES;

BOS; BOVINAE; GLOSSINA (GENUS);

EID: 84857686469     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-011-9981-3     Document Type: Article

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