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Mapping the benefit-cost ratios of interventions against bovine trypanosomosis in Eastern Africa

Year of publication 2015

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 22 p.

Author A.P.M. Shaw , G.R.W. Wint, G. Cecchi, S. J. Torr, R. C. Mattioli and T. P. Robinson

Publisher Elsevier B.V. ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) This study builds upon earlier work mapping the potential benefits from bovine trypanosomosis control and analysing the costs of different approaches. Updated costs were derived for five intervention techniques: trypanocides, targets, insecticide-treated cattle, aerial spraying and the release of sterile males. Two strategies were considered: continuous control and elimination. For mapping the costs, cattle densities, environmental constraints, and the presence of savannah or riverine tsetse spe cies were taken into account. These were combined with maps of potential benefits to produce maps of benefit-cost ratios. Author’s Accepted Manuscript, published with permission.

Open Acess Article. This article is academically peer reviewed and published externally. This article is published in Preventive Veterinary Medicine Volume 122 - Issue No. 4, pp. 406-416, 1 December 2015

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A.P.M. Shaw , G.R.W. Wint, G. Cecchi, S. J. Torr, R. C. Mattioli and T. P. Robinson (2015) Mapping the benefit-cost ratios of interventions against bovine trypanosomosis in Eastern Africa. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. Vol. 122, Issue 4, pp. 406-416. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2015.06.013

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