Imported and travelling dogs as carriers of canine vector-borne pathogens in Germany

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Menn, Brigitte ^a   Lorentz, Susanne ^b   Naucke, Torsten J ^b,c,d  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Parasitus Ex EV   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d LABOKLIN GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; EHRLICHIA CANIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GERMANY; HEPATOZOON CANIS; IMPORT DISEASE; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISURE; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PORTUGAL; RICKETTSIA CONORII; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRAVEL; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BABESIA CANIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EHRLICHIA CANIS; HEPATOZOON CANIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; RICKETTSIA CONORII;

EID: 77950687026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-34     Document Type: Article

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