Risk factors for farm-level African swine fever infection in major pig-producing areas in Nigeria, 1997-2011

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 65-75

  Fasina, F O ^a   Agbaje, M ^b   Ajani, F L ^b   Talabi, O A ^b   Lazarus, D D ^a,c   Gallardo, C ^d   Thompson, P N ^a   Bastos, A D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^c NATIONAL VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Nigeria)

^d Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

African swine fever; Case control; Farm level infection; Nigeria; Pig

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; VIROLOGY;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; RISK FACTORS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84867142946     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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