1. Bovine and small ruminant African animal trypanosomiasis in Nigeria - A review.
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Odeniran PO, Ademola IO, Macleod ET, and Welburn SC
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- Animals, Cattle parasitology, Goats parasitology, Insect Vectors, Livestock parasitology, Nigeria epidemiology, Trypanosomiasis, African epidemiology, Trypanosomiasis, African prevention & control, Trypanosomiasis, Bovine prevention & control, Tsetse Flies, Ruminants parasitology, Trypanosomiasis, African veterinary, Trypanosomiasis, Bovine epidemiology
- Abstract
Despite extensive attempts over many decades to control African Animal Trypanosomiasis (AAT) across the tsetse fly belt of Nigeria, AAT persists as major animal health problem causing severe morbidity and mortality in livestock. The large agricultural losses in turn have severe adverse impacts on sustainable agricultural development. Despite this, in the past 50 years there have been no significant national control programs against AAT. This review explores the history of AAT control in Nigeria, examining the successes and failures in measures adopted in Nigeria to control AAT and the changing disease epidemiology., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2018
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