Descriptive spatial and spatio-temporal analysis of the 2000-2005 canine rabies endemic in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Acta Tropica

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 157-162

  Suzuki, K ^a   Pereira, J A C ^b   Lopez R ^b   Morales, G ^c   Rojas, L ^c   Mutinelli, L E ^a   Pons, E R ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Investigación Económica del Colegio de Economista   (Bolivia)

^c Lab de Invest Y Diagnostico Vet   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Rabies; Spatial analysis; Spatio temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

CANID; ENDEMISM; RABIES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DOG; ENDEMIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; RABIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS;

BOLIVIA; SANTA CRUZ [BOLIVIA]; SANTA CRUZ [SANTA CRUZ (DPR)]; SOUTH AMERICA;

RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 34548185705     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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