Seroepidemiology of bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon and use of the spot test to identify herds with PI calves

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Handel, Ian G ^a   Willoughby, Kim ^d   Land, Fiona ^a   Koterwas, Bronwyn ^a   Morgan, Kenton L ^b   Tanya, Vincent N ^c   de Bronsvoort, Barend M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

^d MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; BOVINE DIARRHEA VIRUS; BOVINE VIRAL DIARRHEA; CALF (BOVINE); CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERD; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; BOVINE VIRAL DIARRHEA VIRUS 1; CAPRA HIRCUS; FLAVIVIRIDAE; PESTIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BOVINE VIRUS DIARRHEA-MUCOSAL DISEASE; CAMEROON; CATTLE; DIARRHEA VIRUSES, BOVINE VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHY; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 79959949557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021620     Document Type: Article

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