Survey of antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania spp. in gray and red fox populations from North Carolina and Virginia

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1230-1231

  Rosypal, Alexa C ^a   Tripp, Shanesha ^a   Lewis, Samantha ^a   Francis, Joy ^a   Stoskopf, Michael K ^b   Larsen, R Scott ^b   Lindsay, David S ^c  

^a JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; ASSAY; CANID; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SURVEY; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; FOX; HOST; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FOXES; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; NORTH CAROLINA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRGINIA; ZOONOSES;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

CANIDAE; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UROCYON; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 78650447490     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2600.1     Document Type: Article

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