Factors associated with acquisition of human infective and animal infective trypanosome infections in domestic livestock in Western Kenya.

• Main Authors: Beatrix von Wissmann (Author), Noreen Machila (Author), Kim Picozzi (Author), Eric M Fèvre (Author), Barend M deC Bronsvoort (Author), Ian G Handel (Author), Susan C Welburn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Trypanosomiasis is regarded as a constraint on livestock production in Western Kenya where the responsibility for tsetse and trypanosomiasis control has increasingly shifted from the state to the individual livestock owner. To assess the sustainability of these localised control efforts,...