Prevalence of livestock diseases and their impact on livelihoods in Central Equatoria State, southern Sudan

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 216-223

  Malak, A K ^a   Mpoke, L ^b   Banak, J ^b   Muriuki, S ^b   Skilton, R A ^c   Odongo, D ^c   Sunter, J ^d   Kiara, H ^c  

^a Directorate of Veterinary Services   (Sudan)

^b Veterinaires Sans Frontieres Belgium   (Kenya)

^c INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

East Coast fever; Livestock diseases; Participatory epidemiology; Prevalence; Southern Sudan

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AGRICULTURE; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD; BOVIDS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ECONOMICS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SUDAN; THEILERIA; THEILERIOSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

AGRICULTURE; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DIARRHEA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RUMINANTS; SUDAN; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BOS; BOVIDAE; IXODIDA; THEILERIA; THEILERIA MUTANS; THEILERIA PARVA;

EID: 84858800410     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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