Knowledge and uses of African pangolins as a source of traditional medicine in Ghana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Boakye, Maxwell Kwame ^a   Pietersen, Darren William ^d   Kotzé, Antoinette ^b,c,d   Dalton, Desiré Lee ^b   Jansen, Raymond ^a,d  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b National Zoological Gardens of South Africa   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^d African Pangolin Working Group   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ANIMAL HUNTING; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; CONVULSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FEMALE; FINANCE; GHANA; GHANAIAN; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANGOLIN; POPULATION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RITUAL; SCALES; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPIRITUAL CARE; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ANIMAL; MEDICINAL PLANT; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; GHANA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84928978431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117199     Document Type: Article

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