Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii antibodies in wild ruminants in kavečany zoo, Košice, Eastern Slovakia

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 321-324

  Dorko, Erik ^a   Rimárová, Kvetoslava ^a   Pilipčinec, Emil ^b   Trávniček, Milan ^b  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Coxiella burnetii; ELISA; Q fever; Wild ruminants

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALLOW; GOAT; NONHUMAN; Q FEVER; SEROLOGY; SHEEP; SLOVAKIA; ZOO ANIMAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; BOVIDS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DAMA DAMA; OVIS ARIES; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; Q FEVER; RUMINANTS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 75149133887     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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