Seroprevalence of, and risk factors for, peste des petits ruminants in sheep and goats in Northern Jordan

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-8

  Al Majali, Ahmad M ^a   Hussain, Nazmi O ^b   Amarin, Nadim M ^c   Majok, Aggrey A ^d  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b Ministry of Agriculture   (Jordan)

^c Boehringer Ingelheim   (United Arab Emirates)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JUBA   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Goats; Peste des petits ruminants; Risk factors; Sheep

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; JORDAN; MEASLES VIRUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHY; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; JORDAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; PESTE-DES-PETITS-RUMINANTS; PESTE-DES-PETITS-RUMINANTS VIRUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES; PESTE-DES-PETITS-RUMINANTS VIRUS;

EID: 42149145461     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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