Prevalence of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) among dogs in Oklahoma

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 217, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1853-1857

  Bradley, Kristy K ^a   Bergman, Douglas K ^b   Woods, J Paul ^b,d   Crutcher, James M ^a   Kirchhoff, Louis V ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TRIATOMA SANGUISUGA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; DOG DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; OKLAHOMA; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION ASSAY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0034672417     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2000.217.1853     Document Type: Article

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