Anaemia in East African short-horn Zebu calves : field diagnosis, infectious causes and pathogen interactions

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dc.contributor.advisor Penzhorn, Barend Louis en
dc.contributor.advisor Coetzer, Jacobus A.W. en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Conradie van Wyk, Ilana en
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-07T12:43:52Z
dc.date.available 2012-09-21 en
dc.date.available 2013-09-07T12:43:52Z
dc.date.created 2012-09-07 en
dc.date.issued 2012-09-21 en
dc.date.submitted 2012-09-18 en
dc.description Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. en
dc.description.abstract This study formed part of the collaborative IDEAL (Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock) project, which focused on the sedentary mixed crop-livestock smallholding system in Western Kenya. This was a longitudinal study where calves were recruited at birth and followed at 5-weekly intervals until 51 weeks of age. The main aim was to investigate the total disease burden of cattle in the study area for the first year of life. The main objectives of the study concerned anaemia as a syndrome in the calves. Anaemia can provisionally be diagnosed based on clinical signs, but a confirmatory diagnosis is based on measuring of red blood cell parameters, such as packed cell volume (PCV), red cell counts (RCC) or haemoglobin (HGB). The FAMACHA en
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dc.description.department Veterinary Tropical Diseases en
dc.identifier.citation iagnostic test developed to detect anaemia and haemonchosis in sheep, was designed to test pallor by measuring the colour of the ocular mucosa against a colour chart. The en
dc.identifier.other FAMACHA en
dc.identifier.upetdurl http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09182012-184202/ en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28017
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © score card, a field diagnostic test developed to detect anaemia and haemonchosis in sheep, was designed to test pallor by measuring the colour of the ocular mucosa against a colour chart. The FAMAC en
dc.subject East African short-horn zebu calves en
dc.subject Western Kenya en
dc.subject East African livestock en
dc.subject Infectious diseases en
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.title Anaemia in East African short-horn Zebu calves : field diagnosis, infectious causes and pathogen interactions en
dc.type Thesis en


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