Prevalence and carrier status of leptospirosis in smallholder dairy cattle and peridomestic rodents in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1041-1047

  Gamage, Chandika D ^a   Koizumi, Nobuo ^b   Muto, Maki ^b   Nwafor Okoli, Chinyere ^a   Kurukurusuriya, Shanika ^c   Rajapakse, Jayanthe R P V ^c   Kularatne, Senanayake A M ^d   Kanda, Koji ^a   Lee, Romeo B ^a   Obayashi, Yoshihide ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^b   Tamashiro, Hiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Domestic Animals; Leptospirosis; PCR; Serology; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE; DAIRY CATTLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FLAB GENE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SRI LANKA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CARRIER STATE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RODENTIA; SRI LANKA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; RODENTIA;

EID: 80051525012     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0153     Document Type: Article

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