Tickborne arbovirus surveillance in market livestock, Nairobi, Kenya

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1074-1080

  Sang, Rosemary ^a   Onyango, Clayton ^a   Gachoya, John ^a   Mabinda, Ernest ^a   Konongoi, Samson ^a   Ofula, Victor ^a   Dunster, Lee ^a   Okoth, Fred ^a   Coldren, Rodney ^a   Tesh, Robert ^b   Da Rosa, Amelia Travassos ^b   Finkbeiner, Stacy ^c   Wang, David ^c   Crabtree, Mary ^d,e   Miller, Barry ^d  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; RHIPICEPHALUS; TICK; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 33745956788     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1207.060253     Document Type: Article

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