Serological study of Q fever in sheep in the territory of eastern Slovakia

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 323-325

  Dorko, Erik ^a   Pilipčinec, Emil ^b   Rimárová, Kvetoslava ^a   Kostovčíková, Jana ^a  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Antibody; Coxiella burnetii; ELISA; Q fever; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; Q FEVER; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; SLOVAKIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SHEEP DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CAPRA HIRCUS; COXIELLA BURNETII; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; Q FEVER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SLOVAKIA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79955029853     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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