کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2472696 1112584 2006 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
East Coast fever and multiple El Niño Southern oscillation ranks
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم دامی و جانورشناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
East Coast fever and multiple El Niño Southern oscillation ranks
چکیده انگلیسی
East Coast fever (ECF), a tick-borne disease of cattle, is a major constraint to livestock development in Africa in general and southern Zambia in particular. Understanding the transmission patterns of this disease complex is very difficult as shown by previous studies in southern and eastern Zambia due to the interplay of risk factors. In this long-term study, we investigated whether global weather changes had any influence on disease transmission in traditionally kept cattle in southern Zambia. The results from this study show a strong association between increased Theileria parva contacts in cattle and the presence of El Niño, clearly linking a simple climatic index to disease outbreaks. We therefore propose that in southern Zambia, the simple and readily available multiple El Niño Southern oscillation index (MEI) ranks be used in planning ECF control programmes and early warning.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Veterinary Parasitology - Volume 135, Issue 2, 30 January 2006, Pages 147-152
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