The topology of between-herd cattle contacts in a mixed farming production system in western Kenya
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and developing country institute | en |
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and advanced research institute | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | University of Nairobi | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Livestock Research Institute | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | University of Edinburgh | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | University of Liverpool | en |
| cg.contributor.crp | Agriculture for Nutrition and Health | |
| cg.contributor.donor | Wellcome Trust | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Department for International Development, United Kingdom | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Medical Research Council, United Kingdom | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, United Kingdom | en |
| cg.coverage.country | Kenya | |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | KE | |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Eastern Africa | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Eric M. Fèvre: 0000-0001-8931-4986 | en |
| cg.creator.identifier | William de Glanville: 0000-0003-2474-0356 | en |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | en |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2018.06.010 | en |
| cg.isijournal | ISI Journal | en |
| cg.issn | 0167-5877 | en |
| cg.journal | Preventive Veterinary Medicine | en |
| cg.reviewStatus | Peer Review | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | AGRICULTURE | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | ANIMAL PRODUCTION | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | CATTLE | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | CROP-LIVESTOCK | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | FARMING SYSTEMS | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | LIVESTOCK | en |
| cg.volume | 158 | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Ogola, J. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Fèvre, Eric M. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Gitau, G.K. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Christley, Robert M. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Muchemi, G. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Glanville, William A. de | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-20T08:47:17Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-20T08:47:17Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96207 | |
| dc.title | The topology of between-herd cattle contacts in a mixed farming production system in western Kenya | en |
| dcterms.abstract | In many livestock production systems in sub-Saharan Africa, cattle are owned by individual keepers but regularly mix with animals from other herds while grazing communal land, at watering points or through the use of shared bulls for breeding and ploughing. Such contacts may have important implications for disease transmission and control but are not well documented. We describe between farm contacts in Kimilili sub-county of Bungoma County, a mixed farming area of predominately smallholder farmers. Between-farm contacts occurring during grazing or at shared water points over the past four weeks were captured in seven randomly selected villages using a photo-elicitation tool. The use of shared bulls for breeding and ploughing, as well as cattle introductions from farms within the same village in the past 12 months, were also captured. Contact networks were constructed for each contact type in each village. In total 329 farms were included in the study. Networks resembled undirected scale-free graphs with a network density ranging between 9.6 and 14.0.. Between 45.6 and 100% of the farms in each study village had been in contact over the past four weeks through grazing and watering contacts. Between 88.9 and 100% were considered to have been in contact over the past 12 months. The topology of the networks was heterogeneous, with some farms exhibiting a high degree of contact. The degree of farm contact and distances between farms were negatively correlated (Pearson correlation coefficient range -0.2 to -0.4). Effective disease control and surveillance must take into consideration the frequency and range of contacts that occur between farms within a single village. Cattle keepers are highly interconnected and pathogens that are transmitted through direct or indirect animal contact would be expected to spread rapidly in the study system. However, the observed heterogeneity in between farm contact may present opportunities for interventions to be targeted to particular herds to limit infectious disease spread. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.audience | Scientists | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Ogola, J., Fèvre, E.M., Gitau, G.K., Christley, R., Muchemi, G. and Glanville, W.A. de. 2018. The topology of between-herd cattle contacts in a mixed farming production system in western Kenya. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 158: 43–50. | en |
| dcterms.extent | p. 43-50 | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2018-10 | en |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| dcterms.publisher | Elsevier | en |
| dcterms.subject | livestock | en |
| dcterms.subject | cattle | en |
| dcterms.subject | mixed farming | en |
| dcterms.subject | research | en |
| dcterms.subject | animal production | en |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article |
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