Survey Of Ketosis And Hypoproteinaemia In Slaughtered Cattle In The Sahel Region Of Nigeria

Authors :: Sam Ndubisi Okonkwo
Nanacha Afifi Igbokwe
Ikechukwu Onyebuchi Igbokwe
Haja Gana Hamza
Source :: Animal Research International; Vol 6, No 1 (2009)
Publication Year :: 2009
Publisher :: African Journals Online (AJOL), 2009.
Abstract: Serum ketone and total protein concentrations of 966 cattle slaughtered at the metropolitan abattoir, Maiduguri, Nigera, were estimated durng the dry and rainy months of the year. None of the sera had a titrable ketone concentration. Serum total protein (STP) concentration of Keywords : Nigeria, Sahel region, Cattle, Serum ketones, Serum total protein, Undernutrition

Subjects :: Wet season
Veterinary medicine
Ketone concentration
Prevalence
Serum ketones
Biology
medicine.disease
Malnutrition
Animal science
Dry season
medicine
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ketosis
General Environmental Science
Total protein

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