Risk of importing zoonotic diseases through wildlife trade, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1721-1726

  Pavlin, Boris I ^a   Schloegel, Lisa M ^b   Daszak, Peter ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIUM; BRUCELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; ECHINOCOCCUS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; IMPORT DISEASE; INFECTION RISK; LEPTOSPIRA; MAMMAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; RABIES VIRUS; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VIRUS; WILDLIFE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMMERCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MAMMALS; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 70350465331     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1511.090467     Document Type: Review

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