Brucellosis outbreak in an organized dairy farm involving cows and in contact human beings, in Himachal Pradesh, India

Veterinarski Arhiv

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-102

  Chahota, Rajesh ^a   Sharma, Mandeep ^a   Katoch, Ramesh Chand ^a   Verma, Subhash ^a   Singh, M M ^a   Kapoor, Vipasha ^a   Asrani, R K ^a  

^a Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University   (India)

Author keywords

Abortion; Brucella abortus biotype I; Brucella melitensis; Cows; Human beings

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; ROSE BENGAL; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BREEDING; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDIA; LIVESTOCK; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MONOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; RETAINED PLACENTA; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; STILLBIRTH; SYMPTOM;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS;

EID: 0038074168     PISSN: 03725480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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