Ruminant brucellosis in the Kafr El Sheikh governorate of the Nile Delta, Egypt: Prevalence of a neglected zoonosis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hegazy, Yamen M ^a,b   Moawad, Amgad ^b   Osman, Salama ^b   Ridler, Anne ^a   Guitian, Javier ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KAFRELSHEIKH UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BOVIDS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; EGYPT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOAT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MILK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANK; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GOAT DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EGYPT; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MILK; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79851485128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000944     Document Type: Article

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