Implications of the cattle trade network in Cameroon for regional disease prevention and control.

ABSTRACT: Movement of live animals is a major risk factor for the spread of livestock diseases and zoonotic infections. Understanding contact patterns is key to informing cost-effective surveillance and control strategies. In West and Central Africa some of the most rapid urbanization globally is expected to increase the demand for animal-source foods and the need for safer and more efficient animal production. Livestock trading points represent a strategic contact node in the dissemination of multiple pathogens. From October 2014 to May 2015 official transaction records were collected and a questionnaire-based survey was carried out in cattle markets throughout Western and Central-Northern Cameroon. The data were used to analyse the cattle trade network including a total of 127 livestock markets wi

SUBMITTER: Motta P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5339720 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature