Cattle movements and trypanosomes: Restocking efforts and the spread of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense sleeping sickness in post-conflict Uganda

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Selby, Richard ^a   Bardosh, Kevin ^b   Picozzi, Kim ^a   Waiswa, Charles ^c   Welburn, Susan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Cattle movements; Conflict; Restocking; Sleeping sickness; Trypanocidal treatment; Uganda

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LIVESTOCK; MARKET; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; UGANDA; VETERINARIAN;

BOS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIVESTOCK; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; UGANDA;

EID: 84883599992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-281     Document Type: Article

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