Maximizing the chances of detecting pathogenic leptospires in mammals: The evaluation of field samples and a multi-sample-per-mammal, multi-test approach

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 145-162

  Tulsiani, S M ^a   Graham, G C ^b,c   Dohnt, M F ^b   Burns, M A ^b   Craig, S B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PENTOBARBITAL;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BAT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INCIDENCE; IXODES; IXODES HOLOCYCLUS; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAMMAL; MICROSCOPIC AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SILVER IMPREGNATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPLEEN;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79952659893     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485911X12899838683205     Document Type: Article

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