Prevalence of leptospirosis in dairy cattle from small rural production units in Toluca Valley, State of Mexico

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 292-295

  Leon, L L ^a   Garcia, R C ^b   Diaz, C O ^b   Valdez, R B ^a   Carmona, G C A ^a   Velazquez, B L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Leptospirosis; Serology

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; CATTLE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAIRY CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION CONTROL; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVESTOCK; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR CANICOLA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR HARDJO; TOLUCA;

EID: 57949084685     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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