Community- and farmer-based management of animal African trypanosomosis in cattle

Jérémy Bouyer1, Fanny Bouyer, Meritxell Donadeu

  • 1Unité Mixte de Recherche Contrôle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et Emergentes, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Montpellier, France; Unité Mixte de Recherche 1309 Contrôle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et Emergentes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier, France; Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles, Laboratoire National d'Elevage et de Recherches Vétérinaires, Dakar, BP 2057, Sénégal.

Trends in Parasitology
|September 10, 2013
PubMed

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