The global burden of bacterial and viral zoonotic infections

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 326-330

  Christou, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bacterial zoonoses; Disease burden; Influenza; Review; Viral zoonoses; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; BORNA DISEASE VIRUS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTION; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CYNODEGMI; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTION; CHLAMYDOPHYLA PSITTACI; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTION; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; COXIELLA BURNETII; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGI; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HENDRA VIRUS; HENDRA VIRUS INFECTION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LISTERIA; LISTERIOSIS; MARBURG HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; MARBURG VIRUS; MENTAL DISEASE; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; MORGANELLA MORGANII; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NAIRO VIRUS; NAIROVIRUS INFECTION; NIPAH VIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PASTEURELLA; PASTEURELLOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; Q FEVER; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROSS RIVER ALPHA VIRUS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; SINDBIS VIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TULAREMIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 79751506897     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03441.x     Document Type: Review

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