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

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

dc.contributor.advisor	Penzhorn, Barend Louis	en
dc.contributor.advisor	Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.	en
dc.contributor.email	ilana@conradie.net	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
dc.description.availability	unrestricted	en
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