Prevalence and spatial distribution of Theileria parva in cattle under crop-livestock farming systems in Tororo District, Eastern Uganda

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Muhanguzi, Dennis ^a,b   Picozzi, Kim ^b   Hatendorf, Jan ^c   Thrusfield, Michael ^d   Welburn, Susan Christina ^b   Kabasa, John David ^a   Waiswa, Charles ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

East Coast fever; p104 based PCR; Prevalence; Theileria parva; Tororo District

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE; CATTLE BREED; CATTLE FARMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EAST COAST FEVER; FEMALE; LIVESTOCK; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THEILERIA PARVA; UGANDA; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHEMISTRY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; THEILERIASIS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; IXODIDA; THEILERIA PARVA;

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; LIVESTOCK; MALE; PREVALENCE; THEILERIA PARVA; THEILERIASIS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; UGANDA;

EID: 84897996373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-91     Document Type: Article

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