Potential Risk of Regional Disease Spread in West Africa through Cross-Border Cattle Trade

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Dean, Anna S ^a,b   Fournié, Guillaume ^c   Kulo, Abalo E ^d   Boukaya, G Aboudou ^e   Schelling, Esther ^a,b   Bonfoh, Bassirou ^f  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOMÉ   (Togo)

^e Direction de l'Elevage   (Togo)

^f CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIN; BURKINA FASO; CATCHMENT; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GHANA; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIVESTOCK; MARKET; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON; SIMULATION; TOGO;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; BENIN; BURKINA FASO; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DATA COLLECTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GHANA; NIGERIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; TOGO;

EID: 84885090745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075570     Document Type: Article

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