Seroprevalences and local variation of human and livestock brucellosis in two villages in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 923-928

  El Sherbini, Azza ^a   Kabbash, Ibrahim ^b   Schelling, Esther ^c   El Shennawy, Salama ^d   Shalapy, Nagwa ^e   Elnaby, Gamal Hasab ^e   Helmy, Abdel Aziz ^e   Eisa, Adel ^e  

^a Tanta Fever Hospital   (Egypt)

^b TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d Microbiology Department   (Egypt)

^e ANIMAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Diagnostic tests; Egypt; Epidemiology; Livestock; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EGYPT; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

BRUCELLA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34547121708     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.04.020     Document Type: Article

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