Surveillance for zoonotic vector-borne infections using sick dogs from southeastern Brazil

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 689-697

  De Paiva Diniz, Pedro Paulo Vissotto ^a   Schwartz, Denise Saretta ^b   De Morais, Helio Silva Autran ^c   Breitschwerdt, Edward Bealmear ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartonella henselae; Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii; Dog; Ehrlichia canis; Epidemiology; PCR; Sentinel; Tick borne infections

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRAZIL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; EVALUATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RNA GENE; SENTINEL EVENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BRAZIL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZOONOSES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA VINSONII SUBSP. BERKHOFFII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; IXODIDA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII;

EID: 37549027150     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0129     Document Type: Article

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