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ReviewTropical animal health and production2013

Private sector involvement in the control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in the Kazungula district of Zambia benefitted the community and the control strategy.

Geoffrey Munkombwe Muuka, Nadi Songolo, Swithine Kabilika, Paul Fandamu, Domenico Buonavoglia, Massimo Scacchia

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Review in Tropical animal health and production, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Geoffrey Munkombwe MuukaMinistry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, P.O. Box 33980, Lusaka, Zambia. geoffreymuuka@yahoo.co.uk
Nadi Songolo
Swithine Kabilika
Paul Fandamu
Domenico Buonavoglia
Massimo Scacchia
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock · ZMUniversity of Bari Aldo Moro · ITUniversity of Teramo · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is a disease of economic importance that is widely distributed in sub-Saharan African and contributes significantly to cattle morbidity and mortality. Lack of resources to implement eradication measures has led to the disease becoming endemic in most areas in sub-Saharan Africa where governments have little resources and the majority of the people are poor. Usually, control and eradication of such diseases as CBPP is treated as a public good by governments and to achieve this, governments are usually assisted by nongovernment organisations, bilateral government programmes and international donors. The private sector, which usually is companies that run businesses to make profit, although not very well established in sub-Saharan Africa could play a big role in the eradication of CBPP in the region. This could play a dual role of promoting investment and also eradicate livestock diseases which have proved a menace in the livestock sector. This paper highlights the role played by the private sector in the control of CBPP in Zambia.

Indexed as

Animal HusbandryAnimalsCattleCattle DiseasesMycoplasma mycoidesPleuropneumonia, ContagiousPrivate SectorZambia

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PMID23334379
OpenAlexW2121308526

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