Drivers of Bushmeat Hunting and Perceptions of Zoonoses in Nigerian Hunting Communities

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Friant, Sagan ^a   Paige, Sarah B ^a   Goldberg, Tony L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AGED; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BUSHMEAT; CERCOPITHECUS; COMMUNITY; COUGHING; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALARIA; MANDRILLUS; MEAT; NIGERIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PORCUPINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RABIES; RICKETS; SCABIES; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYPHILIS; TYPHOID FEVER; TYPHUS; ZOONOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PERCEPTION; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; WILD ANIMAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PERCEPTION; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84930683840     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003792     Document Type: Article

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