Occupational health and safety in small animal veterinary practice: Part II - Parasitic zoonotic diseases

Canadian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 799-802

  Weese, J Scott ^a   Peregrine, Andrew S ^a   Armstrong, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FEMALE; GIARDIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PARASITOSIS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VISCERAL LARVA MIGRANS SYNDROME; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CANADA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ZOONOSES;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALIA; CANIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0036807990     PISSN: 00085286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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