Economic losses due to cystic echinococcosis in India: Need for urgent action to control the disease

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Singh, Balbir B ^a   Dhand, Navneet K ^b   Ghatak, Sandeep ^c   Gill, Jatinder P S ^a  

^a GURU ANGAD DEV VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ICAR RESEARCH COMPLEX FOR NEH REGION   (India)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Echinococcosis; Economic loss; Hydatidosis; India; Parasitic zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; BUBALUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECONOMIC LOSS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INDIA; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MEAT; MILK; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARASITIC ZOONOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; ZOONOSIS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECONOMIC LOSS; HYDATIDOSIS; INDIA; PARASITIC ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MEAT; MILK; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREVALENCE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84888197881     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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