Surveillance of wildlife zoonotic diseases in the Balkans Region

Medicinski Glasnik

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 96-105

  Hukić, Mirsada ^a   Numanović, Fatima ^b   Šiširak, Maida ^a   Moro, Almedina ^a   Dervović, Edina ^a   Jakovac, Sanja ^c   Bešić, Irma Salimović ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUZLA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOSTAR   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Balkan Penninsula; Surveillance; Wildlife zoonotic diseases

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; BUNYAVIRUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LYME DISEASE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER; RABIES; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SANDFLY FEVER; SEPTICEMIA; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINOSIS; TULAREMIA; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); SERBIA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79551715840     PISSN: 18400132     EISSN: 18402445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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