Serological patterns of brucellosis, leptospirosis and Q fever in Bos indicus cattle in Cameroon

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Scolamacchia, Francesca ^a   Handel, Ian G ^a   Fèvre, Eric M ^b   Morgan, Kenton L ^c   Tanya, Vincent N ^d   Bronsvoort, Barend M De C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOS INDICUS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CAMEROON; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HERD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; Q FEVER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SERUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLOSIS; CAMEROON; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; LEPTOSPIROSIS; Q FEVER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS INDICUS; BRUCELLA; LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 77952473725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008623     Document Type: Article

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