Leptospira seroprevalence and associations between seropositivity, clinical disease and host factors in horses

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Baverud, V ^a   Gunnarsson, A ^a   Engvall, E Olsson ^a   Franzen P ^b   Egenvall, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BORGPETERSENII; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA KIRSCHNERI;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 65649150080     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-51-15     Document Type: Article

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