What to do with chronically sick animals? Pastoralists’ management strategies in the far north region of Cameroon

Pastoralism

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Healy Profitós, Jessica M ^a   Moritz, Mark ^a   Garabed, Rebecca B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Ecology of infectious diseases; Ethnoveterinary research; Livestock breeding strategies; Pastoral systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975292878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-3-8     Document Type: Article

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