LeishVet guidelines for the practical management of canine leishmaniosis

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Solano Gallego, Laia ^a   Mirá, Guadalupe ^b   Koutinas, Alek ^c   Cardoso, Luis ^d   Pennisi, Maria Grazia ^e   Ferrer, Luis ^f   Bourdeau, Patrick ^g   Oliva, Gaetano ^h   Baneth, Gad ⁱ  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^e Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica Veterinaria   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

ⁱ HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALLOPURINOL; DELTAMETHRIN; IMIDACLOPRID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; MILTEFOSINE; PERMETHRIN;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; BLEPHARITIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD DONOR; CANINE LEISHMANIOSIS; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEVER; FIBRINOLYSIS; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KINETOPLASTID LIFE CYCLE STAGE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; LETHARGY; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PALLOR; POLYDIPSIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYURIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN DEFECT; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPATHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UREMIA; UROLITHIASIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DOG; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 79956195260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-86     Document Type: Review

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