The role of fruit bats in the transmission of pathogenic leptospires in Australia

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-84

  Tulsiani, S M ^a,b   Cobbold, R N ^a   Graham, G C ^b,c   Dohnt, M F ^b   Burns, M A ^b   Leung, L K P ^a   Field, H E ^d   Smythe, L D ^b   Craig, S B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BAT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MELOMYS BURTONI; MELOMYS CERVINIPES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RATTUS FUSCIPES; RATTUS LUTREOLUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RATTUS SORDIDUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; SEROTYPE; UROMYS CAUDIMACULATUS; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CHIROPTERA; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS;

MELOMYS; MELOMYS CERVINIPES; PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79551714196     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485911X12899838413501     Document Type: Article

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